3 new nurses

3 neue Schwestern / 3 new nurses

Sound installation in 3 parts
with 3 benches, bed gallows, 3 audio channels

With the project 3 nurses from foreign countries are acoustically integrated into the "nurses' park" in Witten/Germany and attention is drawn to their living situation, who have all left their families to take over the nursing work within the families here. Interviews were made with 3 nurses who cover the three care sectors (nursing home, hospital, home care) and who come from former or currently devastated war zones (Bosnia, Vietnam and Ukraine) about their professional and personal situation and they were asked to name a favourite song and a plant from their homeland.

• 2022
• Schwesternpark Witten
• Wittener Tage 2022 / WDR
• Siemens Musikstiftung

This material was electronically processed and transferred into a 3-channel listening situation. At three park benches there is a bed gallows, as known from the hospital, from which a Corona separating disc made of plexiglass hangs, which functions as a surface loudspeaker. On the disc, the aforementioned home plant can be seen in an illustration and the voice of the "nurse" can be heard, which expands spatially via two satellite speakers on the left and right in the bushes.

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