Audio guides are used within exhibitions to provide supplementary information on art contributing to the experience. During this tour, an “audio guide” becomes the focal and starting point for a shared experience. Omitting visual perceptions of art, we discuss the artworks based on sound recordings of an imaginary walk through the exhibition. Like a sound walking tour, where we explore the scenery with our ears, we work with the aural artifacts of the art to create a new perceptive experience based on what we hear, and how we share it within a group. The tour aims to question how we can become earwitnessess during a gallery visit, and create meaning. And if there is no meaning, what can we learn from the silence?
Mediator: Joshua Weitzel is a musician, curator and sound art researcher, and part of the 11th Berlin Biennale mediation team.