Franziska Windisch
Walk with a wire

Editor(s)

Julia Katharina Thiemann

Author(s)

Julia Katharina Thiemann

Design

Franziska Windisch

Cover

Softcover

Size

12 x 18 cm

Pages

120

Illustrations

100

Language(s)

German, English

ISBN

978-3-947563-32-6

The interweaving of traces, sounds, and movements in an impressive work of sound art

The narrow brown magnetic tape of an audio cassette runs through a half-opened hand, slides through the fingers, is palpated in constant motion, and finally falls to the ground. The hand and its touching, particles of sand and small stones leave their traces and, when the tape is played, generate a multi-layered soundscape with crackling and background noises.
In her performative action in the ruins of the city of Messene in the Peloponnese region of Greece, Franziska Windisch (b. 1983) thematizes aspects of repetition and recording. Her artistic examination of the vestiges of the ancient urban space, the reciprocal transition from traces to writing in her video documentation, and the graphic element of the line visible on the ground lead to a reflection on temporality, dissolution, and decay.

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