Photo: Markus Tretter
Ghost Singer (2024)
Mixed media installation, continuously shifting
6-channel audio
DOCK 20, Lustenau AT
The installation takes inspiration from the two interconnected exhibition spaces in DOCK 20.
In the first, a plaster sculpture by Severin Hagen functions internally as a recording booth. In here, people can donate their voice to the exhibition. The voices of the visitors are transmitted into the large exhibition space, where 6 loudspeakers reproduce them in a chaotic choir.
Each visitor has an experience in the room that no other will have, as the composition of voices constantly changes due to a programmed speaker choreography that draws from the growing collection of voices. The space contains situations from silence to an overwhelming amount of vocal information, depending on the moment of the visit.
The sound installation works with the sweet spot between chaos and choir, with the human ear searching for aesthetical pleasure in randomness. It challenges the binarism of active and passive, sender and receiver and opens up a possibility for loneliness and collectivity to coexist.
The installation is part of the group exhibition Schwelle with Pirmin Hagen, Severin Hagen, and Christine Katscher.
Photo: Markus Tretter
Ghost Singer (2024)
Mixed media installation, continuously shifting
6-channel audio
DOCK 20, Lustenau AT
The installation takes inspiration from the two interconnected exhibition spaces in DOCK 20.
In the first, a plaster sculpture by Severin Hagen functions internally as a recording booth. In here, people can donate their voice to the exhibition. The voices of the visitors are transmitted into the large exhibition space, where 6 loudspeakers reproduce them in a chaotic choir.
Each visitor has an experience in the room that no other will have, as the composition of voices constantly changes due to a programmed speaker choreography that draws from the growing collection of voices. The space contains situations from silence to an overwhelming amount of vocal information, depending on the moment of the visit.
The sound installation works with the sweet spot between chaos and choir, with the human ear searching for aesthetical pleasure in randomness. It challenges the binarism of active and passive, sender and receiver and opens up a possibility for loneliness and collectivity to coexist.
The installation is part of the group exhibition Schwelle with Pirmin Hagen, Severin Hagen, and Christine Katscher.