Foto: Andrea Salzmann
Sometimes, I can hear the grass grow
27.2. - 13.3.2026
New Jörg, Jägerstraße 56, Vienna
Vernissage 27.2. | 19:00 - 23:00Opening hours: 5.3. and 6.3.: 15-18h
And/or by appointment: andrea@klingt.org
The exhibition Sometimes, I can hear the grass grow brings together two installation-based works which both deal with voice, perception, and political subjectivation. The leading question is on how an “I” takes shape in relation to a collective—and how polyphony can become audible and visible without solidifying into a homogeneous unity.
In Choir of the Multitude, five mirrored speech bubbles mounted on microphone stands create a spatial arrangement of reflections and refractions. The work understands language not as sovereign expression, but as a field of irritation. So speech becomes legible as a moment of displacement: the subject does not appear as closed and unified, but as fragmented and relational. The mirrors refer viewers back to their own position within a structure of visibility and articulation.
Hmmmmmmm… / Wahrnehmungsapparat-Intensifier extends this inquiry into the sensory realm. Around sixty ceramic funnels function as prostheses of the senses: they channel hearing, seeing, and/or sounding, making perception tangible as an active practice. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening, attention is understood as a collective, potentially political stance.
The exhibition conceives of perception as a performative act: as the possibility of sustaining difference through shared listening, looking and sounding, and of rethinking spaces of agency.