takeaway
Interactive sound installation
The snack bar is an expression of hectic urban life, but also a transitory site of communication where people congregate, usually at night, for beer and currywurst. On front of the wagon is a sensor. If someone passing by comes within its range, the snack bar sounds change into speech interaction. A voice from the front loudspeaker speaks to them in Berlin dialect. In quasi-dialogue interaction, the wagon broadcasts single words or sentences that allude to the psychosocial and political aspects of the immediate situation.
2006- Schlossplatz, Berlin
- Coop. Steffi Weismann
- sonambiente
Especially some stories of the owners life, Tina Volkhardt, can be heard with her original voice: her experiances with the fall of the wall (her origin DDR / East Germany), her unemployment after her last work, her thinking about life - or just shouting, giggling and whistling. But the snack bar also treats itself as an art object at the
sonambiente festival.
