groundless - Sensing Beyond

Sensing Beyond explores the intersection of perception and imagination and asks: How do we navigate the world when sensory boundaries dissolve? The exhibition addresses altered realities and fleeting, elusive experiences - through light, sound, movement and interaction. In times of social uncertainty, the works open up speculative forms of experience that lie beyond the familiar.
The Berlin media art collective Groundless is taking part in 48 Stunden Neukölln with the artists Cemre Bayatlıer, Stratos Bichakis, Özcan Ertek, Jung Hsu, Vinzenz Aubry, Ivana Papić and Tristan Wheeler.
As part of the festival theme What the Fact, the exhibition poses the question of how perception shapes our understanding of truth - and to what extent art can visualise, shake or realign this construction.
Özcan Ertek's Birds on the Wire transforms bird defence spikes into resonant bodies of sound that translate wind and noise into a speculative soundscape about control, borders and urban coexistence.
Vinzenz Aubry's Internal Cinema invites the audience to create an individual internal cinema by rubbing their eyes - an intimate, sound-led experience through headphones.
Cemre Bayatlıer's Wipe Me Out of Here shows a windscreen wiper incessantly cleaning a mirror - a symbol of the gruelling quest for self-clarity.
Stratos Bichakis' A Sense of Time uses neural sonification to explore emotional regeneration and alternative perceptions of time.
Jung Hsu's Aviary shows standardised birdcages with image, sound and video - as a critical reflection on the human urge to archive nature.
Ivana Papić's The Wild Walnut Planet combines plant-based papier-mâché with mycelium objects to rethink female heritage through material and touch.