CHARLOTTA RUTH
HÖRSELGÅNG
Sound walk for two people.
The title Hörselgång hints at a speculative channel that allows one to listen to, and through, somebody else’s ears. In the Swedish language, gång stands for English “channel”, but also “walkway” or “path”. “Hörsel” means hearing.
In Hörselgång spoken instructions and choreographic clues combined with binaural synthesis and enhanced listening practices, interfere with the subjective situatedness of auditory perception. The walk puts different models of perception at play, allowing forms of coexistence, inviting the two participants to go not in and not outside of this world - but "between”.
Hörselgång is a collaboration with sound artist Daniele Pozzi, initiated in the simularr artistic research project in 2023, and since then it has been presented in international art festivals and artistic research conferences. The photo documentation is from Alliances & Commonalities, Stockholm University of the Arts, October 2024
A semi-automated system was generated for systematising the thoughts/objects/data/ that was generated or collected by the visitors. An “everything is already here machine” that was fed by the thoughts and group intelligence of the participants. Towards the end, the participants gained insights about the back-end and where given an individual report and dream prescription. Dramaturgically it however remained ambiguous wether the QUESTIONOLOGY programme also collected data for other than individual purposes.
Concept, environment: Cordula Daus and Charlotta Ruth
Programming, sound: Simon Repp
Almost Doctors: Waltraud Brauner, Cordula Daus, [M] Dudeck, Gilbert Grünbühel,
Imani Rameses, Charlotta Ruth, Simon Repp
Architecture: Hinnerk Utermann
Object design: Susanne Song-Yi Griem, Sofia Romberg
Logo: Vasilis Marmatakis
Graphic design: Maiko Sakurai Karner
Collaboration sound installation: Thomas Grill, Till Bovermann, Almut Schilling
(Rotting sounds, FWF AR445)
Installation office: Margarete Jahrmann
Production: Dominik Grünbühel
Technical support: Felipe Duque
A co-production by Flat-Corner Kunstverein, Zentrum Fokus Forschung,
University of Applied Arts Vienna, brut Wien, MDT Stockholm, with the
kind support of Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien and Federal Ministery Republic of Austria Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport. Thanks to Sebastian Bark, Cornelia Bast, Philipp Ehmann and Steffi Hofer.
