Kiez Hören Moabit
Aug-Sep 2013, Moabit City Garden
Kiez Hören Moabit (Hearing the Kiez of Moabit) is a long-term research project in collaboration with sound-artists Guillermo Lares and Klaus Hamlescher, with an aim to describe and archive transformation of district Moabit using the sound as primary media. By introducing sound-cartography, sound-walks and sound-performances, Moabit City Garden has been turn into the hearing station with diverse audience, spatial characteristics and climate conditions.
3 main events showed multilayered sound condition of this particular space at the border of calm Kiez and heavy industry.
30.08.2013
Collective Mapping Walk (part of B_Tour Festival) tried to re-communicate tour as artistic strategy and involve participants into collective analysis of the location characteristics.
13.09.2013
Second walk focused on multi-scalar characteristic of sound, sound-panoramas and sound-section of the location.
20.09.2013
Finally, performative potential of the sound explorations has been presented by giving audience props to ‘design’ their own soundscapes.