- Film & Video
- Installation
Urban Symphony
Mirjam Zimmerli
28 June 2024 19:00–22:00
29 June 2024 11:00–22:00
30 June 2024 13:00–19:00
The video installation „Urban Symphony“ is an audiovisual narrative that transforms the sounds of the city into a unique sensory experience.
Viewers are visually guided along a path in a stylized white landscape. A white space, a canvas for their own imagination. Free from any distractions, allowing the focus to be on the sound of the city. The sounds are overwhelming and chaotic at first, then become quieter and begin to organize themselves. An urban cacophony that develops into an almost musical composition.
„Urban Symphony“ asks: when do we perceive the sounds as just noise, when do they become a rhythmic signpost or an exciting story? Through the alienated combination of city sounds and abstracted landscape, the installation creates an impressive experience that poetically captures the complexity and dynamics of urban life in a poetic manner.
Viewers are visually guided along a path in a stylized white landscape. A white space, a canvas for their own imagination. Free from any distractions, allowing the focus to be on the sound of the city. The sounds are overwhelming and chaotic at first, then become quieter and begin to organize themselves. An urban cacophony that develops into an almost musical composition.
„Urban Symphony“ asks: when do we perceive the sounds as just noise, when do they become a rhythmic signpost or an exciting story? Through the alienated combination of city sounds and abstracted landscape, the installation creates an impressive experience that poetically captures the complexity and dynamics of urban life in a poetic manner.
Biography
Mirjam Zimmerli
Mirjam Zimmerli is an interdisciplinary artist. Even as a teenager, she took part in exhibitions with paper cut-outs. After training as a designer (Basel School of Design) and further training as a theater pedagogue (Stadttheater Basel), she moved to Berlin in 2002. For several years Mirjam Zimmerli worked mainly in the performing arts as an assistant director, theater pedagogue and singer. In 2003 she was a founding member of Mädchenzimmer, an interdisciplinary, performative art project. For 17 years, she has worked as a lecturer in media design, illustrator, and graphic designer. She has led the swing trio "Why Flamingo Why?" since 2017. Since 2020, she has been working with video installation and developed the "Mental Cacophony" series of works.