- Performance Art
- Installation
- Public Art
City Vibrations
Frank Furto
28 June 2024 19:00–22:00
29 June 2024 10:00–22:00
Experience your city in a new way with "City Vibrations", a sound installation that challenges the everyday perception of the urban environment.
As you stroll through the busy streets, you will come across a remarkable concrete structure - a towering horn that invites you to listen. The sign reading "Listen" serves as a call to a unique sensory experience. With great curiosity, you lean forward, lie down and direct your ear to the smaller end. Suddenly a symphony unfolds - the hectic traffic, the laughter of children, the distant calls of pigeons - all amplified and enveloping you in the pulsating tapestry of urban life.
"City Vibrations" is a profound experience of the acoustic relationship between people and their urban environment.
The installation is more than just a listening experience - it is an invitation to pause, reflect and engage with the city on a deeper level. Amidst the frenetic pace of modern life, it is a poignant reminder to take a moment to listen, connect with the environment and appreciate the fleeting beauty of our surroundings.
The installation itself is performative and interactive and relies on the active participation of the audience. It was built from the concrete of the city and exists only temporarily, as it will eventually be destroyed by investors.
What will you hear when you engage with this installation? The answer remains unknown until each person individually takes the time to listen for themselves. However, this time is short and crucial, as the opportunity to experience this will soon and forever disappear as a testament to the change and transience of urban life.
Experience "City Vibrations" at 48h Neukölln, and let the city speak to you in its own unique language.
As you stroll through the busy streets, you will come across a remarkable concrete structure - a towering horn that invites you to listen. The sign reading "Listen" serves as a call to a unique sensory experience. With great curiosity, you lean forward, lie down and direct your ear to the smaller end. Suddenly a symphony unfolds - the hectic traffic, the laughter of children, the distant calls of pigeons - all amplified and enveloping you in the pulsating tapestry of urban life.
"City Vibrations" is a profound experience of the acoustic relationship between people and their urban environment.
The installation is more than just a listening experience - it is an invitation to pause, reflect and engage with the city on a deeper level. Amidst the frenetic pace of modern life, it is a poignant reminder to take a moment to listen, connect with the environment and appreciate the fleeting beauty of our surroundings.
The installation itself is performative and interactive and relies on the active participation of the audience. It was built from the concrete of the city and exists only temporarily, as it will eventually be destroyed by investors.
What will you hear when you engage with this installation? The answer remains unknown until each person individually takes the time to listen for themselves. However, this time is short and crucial, as the opportunity to experience this will soon and forever disappear as a testament to the change and transience of urban life.
Experience "City Vibrations" at 48h Neukölln, and let the city speak to you in its own unique language.
Biography
Frank Furto
Frank Furto is an artist and researcher exploring acoustic (urban) environments as a context for everyday sonic communications, connections and entanglements. He uses sound as a channel for his creative expression and pushes the boundaries of what the human ear has grown to be attuned for like the rhythms, noises, and beats of urban, industrial soundscapes. The questions raised concern the inherent quality of sounds, their constructive properties, and their relationship to human beings. His performances and artworks are listening experiences that alienate audiences and shed new light on otherwise overheard, familiar sound experiences. Through his practice, he appeals to the audience's imagination to explore other ways of being, being together, and of habitation.