Solo exhibition | Media installation

2 video screens, 1 digital photo frame + qr-code, 1 speaker,  partly covered with tentechular objects (stressball material)

Based on an encounter with a small, hairy, yellow caterpillar called Calliteara pudibunda on Hundertwasserallee in Salzburg, the installation "Gib mir ein F, SirenX" (Give me an F, SirenX) explores the possibilities of vibrational communication between human and other-than-human actors. Caterpillars communicate via vibrations that are largely imperceptible to the human ear. Using sophisticated recording and analysis equipment, bioacousticians have so far been able to identify the following typical caterpillar sounds: they clack and chirp with their chewing tools, emit whistling and burp-like sounds, or produce drumming and scratching noises with their anal oars .

The SirenCaterpillar Vibrations - caterpillar sounds translated by SirenX into sounds hearable to the human ear - form a loose score and thus serve as an invitation to sound along and engage in an interspecies vibrational exchange.

The installation consists of two video screens with videomaterial providing visual rhythms, a digital photo frame with a corresponding qr-code linked to sound samples on soundcloud, and a speaker for the sound score.

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