/ Berlin : 2024 /
/ with abstraqt, snaeb /
/ audio-visual installation /
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Living Room
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Living Room is an audio-visual installation that explores the precarious and evanescent nature of independent cultural spaces in gentrifying urban environments. The project draws parallels between the physical abandonment of communal spaces and the phenomenon of ghosting in digital communication. Just as buildings that hold memories of collective histories are left empty and forgotten, online messages are ignored and digital connections are dropped without explanation. Living Room uses this analogy to comment on the wider implications of abandonment and disconnection in both the physical and digital realms.
The visual content of the piece mixes 3D scans and video recordings of disappearing and now extinct cultural spaces (90mil and Griessmühle), giving a sense of temporality to the shifting cultural landscape of Berlin. The spatial mapping of the video evokes a ghostly feeling and draws the shadows of the audience into the piece, adding to the reflections on the nature of the intangible. The haunting soundscape includes interview snippets about the connection to the space and the process of transformation, as well as field recordings from the insides of this building.
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Originally developed with Jack Miguel and Sabina Moe
Includes sound recordings by Harry Silverlock
Video footage by Aoife McGuinness, Mihály Kornai, Maria Sécio with Henry Weekes
