solo exhibition at GALLERIA Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland
2024
PUBLIC RETREAT  ... through the eye of the ear. Click, stop. ) ) ) ) !?
Click. Click. Click. Stop.
The room shrinks.
Echoes.
What does this city sound like inside your head?
How would you draw it? Imagine, conceptualize and feel and dream and nightmare it?
Without even trying, we build whole worlds from spatial auditory memories.
Each of us follow our own internal maps, subconsciously herded by urban sonic markers. Ding ding ding....
broooom broooom broom, beep, whirr, ta ta ta ta
*reverberant mumble of restaurant hall, shopping mall, train station*
*constant backdrop of motorized trafic*
*light bright vocalization of wind*​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

PUBLIC RETREAT ... through the eye of the ear. Click, stop ) ) ) ) !? was an immersive sound experience about how we sense the world with our ears.

During the exhibition period live radio works and workshops were held /// Ultrasonic listening workshop – hear like a bat! /// Zine workshop exploring local sonotopes /// soundlistening (not sightseeing) /// ...and more! 

 ... through the eye of the ear. click, stop ) ) ) ) !? Multichannel sound installation and experience approx 30 min, loop. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

 ... through the eye of the ear. click, stop ) ) ) ) !? Multichannel sound installation and experience approx 30 min, loop. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Installation view of the sound work and experience The Graveyard Digression - Radio Edit. Approx 30 min, loop. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Workshop on attentive listening. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Zine workshop

Can you hear it? Digital print 841 x 1188 mm, Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Oscillating Between Mediums, digital print, 841 x 1188 mm. Photo: Velda Parkkinen 

Acoustic Entanglements (Sea of Sound), Digital print 841 x 1188 mm. Photo: PUBLIC RETREAT

Vastness and Open Vistas, Digital print 841 x 1188 mm. Photo: PUBLIC RETREAT

Reclining ear. Digital print, 841 x 1188 mm. Photo: PUBLIC RETREATT

Installation view of Silent ) ) ) ) Poem, Textile installation and 4 min animation. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Installation view of Silent ) ) ) ) Poem, Textile installation and 4 min animation. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Installation view of Silent ) ) ) ) Poem, Textile installation and 4 min animation. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Installation view of Silent ) ) ) ) Poem, Textile installation and 4 min animation. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Installation view of Silent ) ) ) ) Poem, Textile installation and 4 min animation. Photo: Velda Parkkinen

Photo: Velda Parkkinen

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