Kunsthalle unterwegs: The Forest as Echo

In the organizer's words:

Tini Aliman / Soya Arakawa / Natasha Barrett / Alessandra Eramo / Oliver Gather / Hanne Lippard / Mélia Roger / Miki Yui

The Forest as Echo combines music, sound art and performance with a direct experience of nature. In the historic Jan Wellem Fountain and the adjacent Weyhe Park in the Grafenberg Forest, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, in cooperation with the Förderkreis Jan-Wellem-Brunnen e. V., is realizing a programme that makes it possible to experience the forest as an acoustic and social resonance space.

The focus is on the surroundings around the site. Over the course of three days, it will be activated by concerts, performances, sound interventions and guided forest walks that respond to the specific atmosphere, acoustics and topography of the forest. The artistic contributions reflect the relationship between sound and space, perception and movement. Natural processes and artistic practice are thus interwoven.

The echo is understood here as a multi-layered motif: as a physical phenomenon, as a poetic image and as a social principle. Sound is not conceived as an isolated event, but as something that echoes, spreads and creates resonances. In this sense, the forest appears not only as a backdrop, but also as an active sound body and player.

The Forest as Echo invites you to open your perception, listen to your surroundings and experience the interplay between nature, sound and community.

A project as part of the Kunsthalle unterwegs project series.