The World in my Room

Research presentation
Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the artistic project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS.

Since fall 2023 AIL is part of the research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS together with the artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK. The main cabin in the former cashier hall of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse offers a special opportunity to give insights to processes and activities of SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS. For the first time, the historical cabin in the hall is used for ongoing artistic installations to make methods more visible, relatable and comprehensible for a public broad audience. The cabin offers a chance to gather feedback and reactions to the project and the specific stages of studies that will be incorporated into the project outcome.

In part VIII of the series of scenographic studies the main cabin in the former cashier hall is transformed into a scenographic listening laboratory: A space for pausing and perceiving reciprocal influences through sound.

The sounds originate from various contexts of the artistic research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS. They do not form a narrative, but an open, non-linear field of experience – a multi-layered acoustic space between inside and outside, near and far, the personal and the shared.
The World in my Room explores listening as an embodied and relational practice.

By directing attention to sound, it becomes possible to experience how inner states and external environments continuously co-produce perception.
A set of questions invites visitors to reflect on their own hearing in relation to emotional and situational states and living systems that exist in and around us.