How dare they try to end this beauty
in cooperation with Julia Kiehlmann
3D sound sculpture / burnt fireworks, 2018
19 min. soundloop / dimensions variable
Towers of burnt fireworks bear witness to the exuberant atmosphere. Human voices emanate from the charred batteries through built-in loudspeakers, imitating the sound of sparklers, howlers and rockets.
How dare they try to end this beauty? examines the human capacity to feel pleasure and joy and to articulate this (collectively). Expressing and communicating feelings to the outside world can be a starting point for social change. In fact, the voice seems to be a thoroughly political and political-metaphorical device. For example, it can be an empowering experience to raise your voice and understand how far it carries. Motivating each other, tuning in and listening to each other are also prerequisites for loving forms of practice. For without solidarity with those who are on their last legs, any emancipatory claim will fizzle out in a puff of smoke.
A long breath is needed to ensure that indignation about social and political inadequacies does not dissipate as soon as one’s own privileges are at stake. How dare they try to end this beauty? is a work about the possibilities of rebellion, about the strength, radicalism and exhaustion of bodies, and about voices that unite and that divide.
Digitale Exhibition:
Credits:
Julia Kiehlmann (Concept and Idee)
Felix Deufel (Composition)
