During the month of November, within the frame of Marianne Mueller's solo exhibition, Sliding Self on Shelf, we are inviting artists and sound artists from French-speaking Switzerland, German-speaking Switzerland, Italy, US and Berlin, Germany, to join us by transmitting a sound contribution. The individual proposals take the form of interviews, poetry readings, DJ sets and sound pieces, and are broadcast on our display-berlin.com platform. 

Giulia Hess's listening/DJ set On Display situates us in the midst of a contextual shift. Whether through her process of compiling and shaping sounds that questions seizures of power and dominant political voices, the narrative and cinematic structure underlaying the assemblage of her set, or the implied modes of listening activating a kind of displacement, she creates new spaces and stories. From existing and fantasized sources, other kind of political, architectural and acoustic spaces arise, in which the end can take a happy turn. 
Giulia Hess (*1984, Zurich, CH) lives and works in Zurich. Her focus is on hidden or obvious ideologies. Through shifts, translations, resonances and different variations, she makes various aspects of power relations visible and audible. She is working mainly with sound and installations in collaborations or alone. She holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Zurich Universitiy of the Arts ZHdK (2021) and was participating in the "What's next Studio" atelierprogram (2021/22), Z-Kubator, Zurich. Giulia Hess is also a DJ, under the name Brvna. Brvna combines pieces of music from different genres into a common thread and changes sides stylistically again and again. Exciting musical architectures with distorted acid basses, at times edgy and complex rhythms meet energetically charged house with a pulsating bassline and create deep atmospheric structures. Brvna is part of the DJ duo Brvna + ich and was co-organizer of the Ziischtigsklub (Café Bar Nordbrücke) where curated music was played at intimate dance evenings.

Sound #1 - Brvna - On Display

Camille Kaiser proposes a work on archiving and sound perception and about the site of her research: the archives. 

In summer 2022, Camille Kaiser visited the archives of ECPAD, the French Republic's Defense Communication and Audiovisual Production Establishment, in Ivry sur Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, to shoot a film. She recorded sounds, with or without images, in various spaces, both indoors and outdoors: in the huge outdoor park that houses this military site, in the offices, in the digitization room, conservation and archive consultation areas. Having obtained a one-day authorization for the shoot, she then had to work quickly with the availability, the few obtained authorizations, and the restrictions. In moments of inaction and to optimize the time, the camera or recorder turns.

Sound #2 - Camille Kaiser - sounds on set

Barry Schwabsky, "5 For Berlin", 2023
Reading in English by Barry Schwabsky

Sound #3 - Barry Schwabsky, "5 Poems", Reading in English by Barry Schwabsky

Barry Schwabsky, "5 For Berlin", 2023
Reading in Italian by Lucia Rabbia

Sound #3 - Barry Schwabsky, 5 Poems, Reading in Italian by Luisa Rabbia

Surviving our traumas is a constant, long, and silent journey. Erected in the face of emptiness and loss, Architectures of Silence is a series of sculptures and installations. They are ways of creating homes of understanding and expression, free and flexible spaces of reparation. The series gave rise to the poem of the same name, read by Marina Stanimirovic for the occasion.

Sound #4 - Marina Stanimirovic - Architectures Du Silence

Originally created as a four-channel sound piece for exciter speakers as part of the exhibition To want the world in a glass hat. at Neun Kelche in Berlin (Bethan Hughes and Dominique Hurth, 13.12.24-01.03.25). Now recomposed with Diego Flórez and archived as a digital file, compressed to standard stereo format, the work takes on a new life whilst carrying echoes of its original context.

Sound #5 - Diego Florez, Bethan Hughes - the world in a glass hat

Sound #6 - Lauren Huret - Praying for my Haters

Sound #7 - Johanna Kotlaris - Jessica Jessica Jessica

Through a sensitive approach to the site and extended field recordings, Emilie Ding and Alizée Lenox write their piece with the reverberations of walls; they sense the large glass windows, the corridors and the electrical appliances. White noise, drones, vibrations and frequencies amplify Neun Kelche’s premises. The acousmatic sounds, assembled into a composition where the interplay of sources—chosen for their vibratory quality and timbre—combined with a multi-diffusion system, draw us into a somatic experience, whilst opening up new fields of mental and sensorial projections.

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