ST-LAB 2021
I am walking
on the beach. The wind swirls around my body. The waves wash the
shore, crashing onto the land in an endless phasing repetition,
creating an oscillating swell of noise. I encounter a sea shell. I
lift it towards my ear – a maze of sound reveals itself to me. We live
immersed in a world of sound. However, most of the sounds are filtered
out by the shape of our ear.
With this project we want to include ourselves deeply within this
world, which extends beyond our daily experience. And thus we began
our intuitive search for the relations between the ear, its form, and
the resulting sound experience. Eventually, all human ears are built
using the same blueprint. Nevertheless, every ear is uniquely shaped
like a fingerprint and thus influences our subjective acoustic
experience of the world. One could say, that listening beings all
together live in their subjective sonic worlds. Therefore, we invented
the concept of the Ohriversum (German ‘Ear-verse’) in which the
entirety of all listening beings establishes a spatial constellation
of these individual worlds. ‘Ohriversum’ takes place as part of the
‘Sensory Threshold LAB’. A group of artists exploring the inaudible
dimensions of our reality, forming new collaborations, narratives and
metaphors.
concept: Katherina Heil (DE), Alexander Johannes Heil (DE), Rik
Möhlmann (NL).
contributing artists: Sarah Rose Guitan Nederlof (ES/NL), Farzané
Nouri (IR), Gijsje Heemskerk (NL), Kim David Bots (NL).