KAPSEL / ECHO CHAMBER

Locations
Antiochia Reisen, Waldstraße 56 and Marc Ephraim, Waldstraße 95, 76133 Karlsruhe

Time
From September 17, 2021
Monday–Sunday: 10 am–10 pm

Two shop windows at the Waldstrasse are fitted with loudspeakers and microphones with built-in acoustic modifications, which play back the sounds from the other location. Thus, the interactive sound installation KAPSEL / ECHO CHAMBER creates defamiliarized acoustic access to the other soundscape. Artistic interventions visually reproduce the existing architecture, enhancing the effect of elements and is mirrored between the two locations. The interplay of these audiovisual interventions creates a capsule of otherness, a glitch in the reality of the everyday urban scenery. What is more, KAPSEL / ECHO CHAMBER invigorates familiar spaces as spaces of possibility, as free spaces that invite you to indulge your imagination and let your thoughts run free — beyond the borders of the visible.

Supported by the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe 2021 project support program for media art.

Sarah Degenhardt

Sarah Degenhardt (*1992) engages in her works with landscapes, nature, and their influence on people and their habitus. In the course of the work process she abstracts her experiences to create condensed, reduced images which she translates into audiovisual multichannel installations, paper artworks, and sculptures. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and during her stays abroad at the École Supérieure d’Art in La Réunion (FR) and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris (FR). Sarah Degenhardt lives and works in Karlsruhe.

Sarai Rose Duke

Sarai Rose Duke (*1994) began to study art at the Carl-Hofer-Schule in Karlsruhe. A trained graphic designer, Duke continued her art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, to begin in Marijke van Wamerdam’s class. She is currently studying for her diploma in Leni Hoffmann’s class for independent arts. In her work she engages with spatial issues using interdisciplinary methods. Sarai Rose Duke lives and works in Karlsruhe.

Jia Liu

Jia Liu (*1990) is a composer and computer musician. She studied composition and music computer science at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (CN) and the University of Music in Karlsruhe. Her works for orchestra and ensembles, electroacoustic music compositions, computer music, and multimedia compositions have been performed at festivals and international conferences in Nice (FR), Saint-Étienne (FR), Karlsruhe, Graz (AT), Shanghai, and Daegu (KR). Her current focus is on algorithmic music and the potential of network-based collaboration. She lives and works in Karlsruhe.