seeing with ears (2019)
site-specific performance
“Seeing with Ears” is a site-specific performance designed for the acoustic and spatial characteristics of the former water reservoir, the Grosser Wasserspeicher. It explores the human capacity to develop a three-dimensional image based on sound.
A blind performer, a musician and a dancer explore the principle of echolocation through palatal clicks (click sonar) and recordings of bat sounds.
It is a piece about the limitations of our senses and the unattainability of the other.
“Does it make sense…… to ask what my experiences are really like, as opposed to how they appear to me?”
Nagel, Thomas / “What is it like to be a Bat?
Credits
- POLETT KASZA, SILJA KORN, ALPHA KARTSAKI - Performance
- KATIA ENGEL - Concept, artistic director
- ALPHA KARTSAKI - Sound Design
- SEBASTIAN SCHLEMMINGER - technical director, sound design
- EVA COENEN - Scientific research
- REINALD SKIBA, EVA COENEN, KARL-HEINZ FROMMOLT - Sound recording bats (with courtesy of the Animal Sound Archive, Museum of Natural History Berlin)
- FAOZAN RIZAL - documentation
Funding
- Bezirksamt Pankow, Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur (District Office Pankow for Continueing Education)
Cooperation Partners
- Animal Sound Archive/Museum of Natural History Berlin, International Bat Museum/ Märkische Höhe/Brandenburg, General Association for the Blind and Visually (Allgemeiner Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverein Berlin e .V. ).
