Abstract

Specific information about the project:
FOLDS (in tape fields)“
2 x 8-channel sound installation by KMRU

"FOLDS (in tape fields)“: In collaboration with the IMAI Foundation – Inter Media Art Institute and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, as part of the ‘Circulating Copies’ exhibition series.

In FOLDS, KMRU explores how urban infrastructures shape and structure the experience of hearing in public spaces. Drawing on audio walks, detours and casual recordings, he approaches Düsseldorf as an auditory field in which routines, rhythms and expectations overlap.
The work unfolds across various locations and loudspeaker systems within the urban landscape. Sound motifs, loops and field recordings appear intermittently and recur, without coalescing into a cohesive whole. Time is stretched, interrupted or rewound. Meaning emerges in passing, in lingering or even in overlooking. Rather than a fixed cartography, the work opens up an open, multi-layered form of perception.
KMRU uses field recordings, ambient sound and experimental techniques to explore auditory cultures beyond prevailing norms of perception.
Further venues in Düsseldorf: Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf, Salon des Amateurs, UFA-Palast, Café Velvet, Callshop Radio.

General information on the third phase of 3ModelRooms:

3ModelSpaces (Auditorium/Laboratory/Theatre)
Sound Corridors at Heinrich-Heine-Allee Underground Station
Phase 3
The third and current phase addresses the core research topic of the 3ModellRäume:
- How can the artistic use of sound enhance the quality of experience in public spaces?
- How can a synthesis of technologies, disciplines, formats and categories open up new avenues for innovation, creativity, cooperation, interactivity and partnerships in public spaces?
- How can sound, understood as a sculptural material that structures space and time, make static architectural spaces permeable to new meanings through its dynamic, fluid and ephemeral nature?
- How can collaborative and transdisciplinary artistic working methods address the diversity of the audience in this specific, functional, non-art context whilst simultaneously ensuring artistic insight and innovation?

In the projects of the third phase, various forms of collaboration have been and continue to be applied and tested:
- Art-sound projects in which, as a visual artist, I co-develop sound artworks in collaboration with artists or creatives from other disciplines.
- Projects in which, as an art director, I conceive themes or series and then invite artists to develop sound art contributions.
- Projects in which, as a curator, I invite artists to develop works for the spaces without providing detailed specifications, and am more interested in provoking as independent an artistic response as possible to the situation and the programme to date.
- Projects that were brought to me due to a particular interest in the unique qualities of the 3ModellRäume and are then, in a sense, realised in co-curation.
- Projects that take up cultural events in the city (festivals, exhibitions, anniversaries, etc.) and reflect on them in a synergistic way.
- Projects realised by invited guest curators.
- Various hybrid forms combining the above methodologies