THE WORLD IN MY ROOM

The installation in the central counter in the cashier hall of Otto Wagner’s Postsparkasse (Georg-Coch-Platz) provides a scenographic listening laboratory, a space for pausing and perceiving reciprocal influences through sound. The sounds originate from various contexts of the artistic research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS. They do not form a narrative, but an open, non-linear field of experience – a multi-layered acoustic space between inside and outside, near and far, the personal and the shared. “THE WORLD IN MY ROOM” explores listening as an embodied and relational practice. By directing attention to sound, it becomes possible to experience how inner states and external environments continuously co-produce perception. A set of questions invites visitors to reflect on their own hearing in relation to emotional and situational states and living systems that exist in and around us.