The project "seeing with ears" (AT), conceived for the special acoustic and spatial conditions of the Great Water Reservoir, is a research into the ability to develop a three-dimensional image through the sense of hearing.
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A blind performer, a musician and a dancer explore the principle of echolocation in space through their own click sounds and audible recordings of bats. A piece about limits of perception, attempts at rapprochement and the inaccessibility of the other.
Location: Large water reservoir Prenzlauer Berg, Belforter Strasse, 10405 Berlin
Performance: Silja Korn, Polett Kasza, Angelina KartsakiConcept / Artistic direction: Katia Engel
Music: Angelina Kartsaki
Sound Design: Sebastian Schlemminger
Scientific-artistic cooperation: Eva Coenen
Technique: Sebastian Schlemminger
Sound recordings of bats: Reinald Skiba, Eva Coenen, Karl-Heinz Frommolt - from the animal voice archive of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Cooperation partner: Tierstimmenarchiv des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin Internationales Fledermausmuseum, Märkische Höhe/Brandenburg Allgemeiner Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverein Berlin e.V. (Animal Voice Archive of the Museum of Natural History Berlin International Bat Museum, Märkische Höhe/Brandenburg)
