// Welcome to my Box

Sound Installation

A poetic and musical exploration of Schacht, Schachtel, Verschachtelung as sonic and social objects. The installation ist part of an ongoing research project on Schacht, Schachtel, Verschachtelung.

A box can enclose, infold and protect from unwanted glances or dust. A box may keep intimate things secret and harmful things away. A box can be used to transport, categorize or store other things. On the contrary, boxes symbolize economic and global inequalities, rendered visible when cardboard boxes, originally used for transporting goods, are later found on the streets, covering the ones without any goods and without a home. Furthermore, blackboxed processes in science or blackboxed algorithms of social media platforms are intransparent and often used for manipulation. That makes the box not just a thing to store and transport other things, but also one containing the ambivalent (dis)advantages, ethics and meanings of technology. Placing boxes into nature and nature into boxes puts a basic technology – the container – in correspondence with nature. And while a cardboard box seems to be misplaced between the trees, it is still made out of trees.

13.03.24 @Cité Internationale des Arts Paris

Supported by Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and Cité des Arts Internationale Paris. Funded by a scholarship of Schmittmann Wahlen Stiftung and Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf.