Echoes of the Land - Opening

Over the past decade, research evidence has shown that human activities, such as surface and subsurface constructions – including highrise building foundations, mining, wastewater injection, and oil exploration – have become factors in triggering earthquakes, contributing to extreme climate conditions, and endangering the survival of humans and other species. This phenomenon represents a reversal of the relationship between humans and the Earth. “Echoes of the Land” is an interactive installation that combines dynamics and sound, allowing the senses to wander between the real and the virtual, the macroscopic and the microscopic, through interaction with the artwork. It creates a sensorial experience while redefining the relationship between humans and nature.This artwork uses the spring-block model in seismology as a scientific basis to construct a mechanical kinetic device capable of simulating real earthquake movements. Simultaneously, through real-time motion detection technology and the sound technique known as “granular synthesis,” minute movements can be converted into highly realistic earthquake
sounds. By exerting external forces, viewers accumulate energy within the block ensemble
until a critical threshold is reached, releasing kinetic energy and generating a series of interconnected movements accompanied by a sequence of sounds. Visitors can thus experience
the installation being used as an “musical instrument” in the course of three musical performances during the Kunstfest.

Admission included in admission to the Bauhaus-Museum