Walls & Lines
Franziska Windisch
Klanginstallation
Verborgene Räume / Scheibenmagazin
This sound art project focuses on villages that have an unrecognized status, that have been evacuated, demolished or are heading these measures in the near future.
A sound installation gathers recordings and maps of different places, investigating a field between sound and movement, between cartography and scorescape.
In those villages, the sound and vibrations that are occurring in the walls are recorded with contact microphones. Afterwards those recordings will be played back in the exhibition space.
Transducers will be attached to wooden plates hanging from the ceiling. Referring to the original walls, those architectural elements are transformed into audio displays.
Referring to a score, each playback situation will face a map, revealing the absence/presence of the place, the recording was made.
Sound recordings were made in unrecognized bedouin villages in the Negev and in the village Otzenrath next to the Garzweiler brown coal mining, that was recently demolished.
For the intervention by the Center for Public Practice the investigation of Wollseifen became a central point. Due to its remarkable history, the undergoing evacuation and the changes from private
to military to public space it represented a rich research field and linked the project to the place of exhibition.