We joined “Everything Flows” residency which took place online due to COVID-19 and explored the idea of an audio-exhibition. Space is an essential aspect of an exhibition. But can it be transferred through sound; can audio alone create a spatial experience and convey a narrative? Can audio-exhibition create an embodied experience? Is it even possible and what could it be in relation to other audio formats like the podcast, sound-work, or radio-play?
What would that mean to translate the exhibition from the physical space to one’s own imagination, created only by audio. We have consulted with people for whom the visual is not the main sense of perception of the world.
The idea stemmed from a recent exhibition we had created on counting-out rhymes collected in the WWII refugee camps, which were created, counted, and “transmitted” intergenerationally as a spoken word; it felt like a good fit to be translated into spatial audio-experience.
During the “Everything Flows” festival, we shared our research with the public.
TeamZane Zajančkauska, Ilze Kalnbērziņa-Prā, Pauls Kvālis. In collaboration with Everything Flows festival, learning from Katrīna Rudzīte, Aija Rīvīte, Rūta Mežavilka, Svetlana Sproģe