PLATEAUS

2015
Media Sound Installation
Site specific – in the context of „random thoughts of a daily light“, das weisse haus, Vienna
Steel cable, mini speakers, stereo sound in loop – voice, led light; variable size (about 200cm x 320cm x 240cm)

Plateaus is an immersive spatial installation, a tonal landscape consisting of two parts, which are intertwined and placed in the space, transforming it and making visible an examination of social structures in the daily confrontation with technologies of communication in today’s world. Plateaus reflects on space in the information age, returns to Borges’ literature and comments on the idea of endless references to places, stories and memories. Not yet a thousand years old, it allegorically experiences a Deleuzian-Guatarian idea of multiplicity, in which we see the plateaus rising as utopian landscapes and expanding in their physical form. The sound is a human voice whispering fictional cities. The sound piece, interpreted and phonetically re-layered by Herrero, becomes the material and the acoustic worlds that resonates in our emotional perception. Plateaus explores the question of how what is perceived changes perception and how this knowledge can be used emancipatorily, and whether there is a specific sound of the public and the private, and in what form these questions have already been dealt with musically, psychologically or in the context of social experiments.