Clapping

What does a room sound like? What does time sound like in a room? Composer Thomas Peter and visual artist Olivia Wiederkehr want to make the exhibition space and its time resonate, to perceive it as a physical body. To do this, they bring objects from their current work: stones – river stones – and tent poles – and themselves. For an hour, they use their bodies to make the objects they have brought with them sound, waiting for the acoustic response of the space in order to encounter it rhythmically and arrhythmically, to experience it, to explore it, to tap it. The scratching of stones on the walls, the tapping of knuckles on the floor, followed by the delicate knocking and clicking of the various stones, which are tapped gently or more energetically on the floor or against each other. It seems as if the two performers, both extremely focused on what lies before them, are barely aware of each other visually. However, their interaction is precise and meticulously coordinated, guided by the acoustics and the rhythms and sounds they produce, they respond sensitively to each other. The result is an intense, complex tapestry of sound that sometimes swells loudly, sometimes moves very gently through the space. Time as the connecting element between the performers, the space and the audience.