THE WORLD IN MY ROOM

Can you sit still?

What do you hear?

Living systems – such as trees and ant colonies, oceans and rivers, ­humans and other animals, bacteria and fungi, as well as societies, cities, organizations, and entire ecosystems – generate and shape diverse soundscapes.

Living systems exist in constant exchange and ongoing interaction with their environments, continuously transforming themselves in the process.

By listening also to the sounds of more-than-human nature, we may begin to perceive these dynamic relationships more consciously – and perhaps sense new forms of resonance, and connectedness.

THE WORLD IN MY ROOM provides a scenographic listening laboratory, a space for pausing and perceiving reciprocal influences through sound.

The sounds originate from various contexts of the artistic research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS. They do not form a narrative, but an open, non-linear field of experience – a multi-layered acoustic space between inside and outside, near and far, the personal and the shared. THE WORLD IN MY ROOM explores listening as an embodied and relational practice. By directing attention to sound, it becomes possible to experience how inner states and external environments continuously co-produce perception.

A set of questions invites visitors to reflect on their own hearing in relation to emotional and situational states and living systems that exist in and around us.

Artists / Researchers (core team): Jeanette Müller, Paul Divjak, Alexandra Graupner, Anna-Maria Irgang

Since fall 2023 AIL is part of the research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS together with the artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK. The main cabin in the former cashier hall of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse offers a special opportunity to give insights to processes and activities of SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS. For the first time, the historical cabin in the hall is used for ongoing artistic installations to make methods more visible, relatable and comprehensible for a public broad audience. The cabin offers a chance to gather feedback and reactions to the project and the specific stages of studies that will be incorporated into the project outcome.