Year Zero: A Sound Sculpture
by Ani Samperi
OPENING
// 21.05. Thu, 17-21h,
20h Performance / Sound-Activation
ON VIEW
// 22.05. Fri, 17-21H
// 23.-25.05. Sat – Mon, 14-21h
// 28.-29.05. Thu – Fri, 17-21H
FINISSAGE + Live-Act
// 30.05. Sat, 14-21h
20h Performance / Sound-Activation with Kayla Elrod and Nico Daleman
Entrance 3-8 EUR | Live-Act Ticket 10-30 EUR
The sound expands into the space, circulates within the sphere, and transfers into the body of the listener. The steel structure acts as a resonant body in which frequencies, harmonics, and vibrations condense and become physically perceptible. The surface of the sphere carries traces of its construction. Welded steel plates form a closed structure that contains the sound while radiating it outward. Perception shifts from spatial orientation toward a bodily experience of sound.
Cotton gloves invite direct contact. Through touch, a wider range of frequencies becomes accessible—frequencies that do not fully transmit through air alone. The body becomes a site of resonance and part of the sound transmission.
An opening into the interior allows for a closer interaction. Voice and body can enter into resonance with the object. Sound emerges as a relation between the sculpture and the listener. The composition unfolds as a continuous process. The drones establish a stable, slowly shifting structure in which time is extended and experienced as a state.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ANI SAMPERI is a multimedia sound artist and researcher based in Berlin. Her practice transgresses the boundaries between immersive sound installation, experimental film, and performance art. Her work has incorporated repurposed organic and resonant materials, light/shadow, field recordings, feedback systems, and voice — and various combinations of these — and uses concepts inspired by ecoacoustics and esoteric discourse to address questions of human agency, intimacy, and the existential value of extreme sensory experience.
https://anisamperi.com/
KAYLA ELROD is an American-born, Berlin-based sound artist working with the body as an instrument for sonic inquiry. Through constructed props, wearable instruments, and performance-driven research, her work investigates themes of desire, labor, and waste. She holds an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from UdK Berlin and co-founded the Sonic Curiosities and LODE collectives supporting experimental FLINTA* artists. Her practice unfolds as durational performances, concerts, and site-specific interventions where sound becomes a method of playful and political transformation.
https://kaylaelrod.com/
NICO DALEMAN Sound artist and researcher. His performances are characterized by constant search for bodily interaction, where coexisting sonic entities organize themselves through recursive loops and gestural acts, blurring the boundaries between the digital and the human. With a background in audio engineering and musicology, his research explores the influence of music technology on current practices of contemporary music and sound art, focusing on cybernetics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, trans-traditional musical practices.
