Electrical Walks mit Christina Kubisch

In the organizer's words:

Her numerous cable installations, which have become larger in scale since Il respiro del mare (1981) and occupy a wide variety of spaces, lead Kubisch to an artistic ignition point: she leaves confined spaces and now also devotes herself to the exploration of public space. She sees the city as an unknown parallel universe of countless, continuously growing electromagnetic fields.
Christina Kubisch's Electrical Walksis an ongoing and internationally realized project by the artist since 2003 and is based on electromagnetic audio walks. As in a spatial score, Kubisch conceives research-based routes in cities in which she makes electromagnetic fields audible. These are omnipresent above and below ground in an expanding, supposedly wireless world.
Using specially designed headphones, she explores selected paths together with participants, along which they can move at their own pace, pause, approach signals or move away from them, resulting in ever new sound situations. Some of them are confined to narrow spaces, while others extend over large areas.
Each city has its own individual signature, which varies according to the electromagnetic conditions on site. The sound structures of the condensing fields, which are emitted by light, radar and security systems, neon advertising, vending machines, buses, e-cars or server centers, range from complex layers of high and low frequencies, scratching, beeping, rushing, deep, high, muffled, sharp, loud, quiet rhythms and tones to low humming background noise and are assembled into complex auditory identities of places in the course of the Electrical Walks.
Christina Kubisch has conceived a new version for the urban space in Aachen.
This is the 98th version of the series. On June 20 at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., the artist will offer a guided Electrical Walk; from June 21, these can also be carried out individually using a city map designed by her.