sound installation
2024
This sound installation is part of the Imaginary Ecosystems: E-Vironments series, each of which examines the vulnerability of specific environments through different contextual perspectives.
In Garden Echoes, the audience is invited to engage with a speculative, futuristic garden. Sound-emitting objects, each containing encapsulated soil samples, evoke the concept of future fossils, similar to how amber preserves glimpses of life from a geological past.
The soundscape encourages a deeper awareness of the sounds of soil, revealing its transformations under the influence of external factors and human intervention. Garden Echoes explores the acoustic properties of soil, also integrating data such as humidity, acidity, and alkalinity to shape an evolving soundscape, reflecting the changing conditions of this artificial ecosystem.
Encapsulating the soil in an impermeable shell becomes a symbol of the desperate effort to preserve the remnants of natural matter, despite its already compromised state and ongoing degradation.
The installation features six sounding objects—’artificial plants’— arranged to encourage the audience to explore and listen to the soundscape of this imagined, artificial garden.
The installation was part of a group exhibition:
SPOJENÉ ZVUKEM – Markéta Lisá a Filip Cenek, Maria Komarova, Lucie Vítková, Darina Žurková
16.11.2024 – 11.01.2025
Curator: Lenka Dolanová
Galerie města Blanska, Czech Republic
photo credit: Polina Davydenko
photos from opening performance – photo credit: Jiří Kubík
