Schizo Sonics. Klang als Waffe im Kalten Krieg.
In the organizer's words:
A sound installation by Nik Nowak
The large-format sound sculptures "Panzer" (2011) and "The Mantis" (2019) by Nik Nowak not only caused a stir, but also brought the Berlin-based artist numerous collaborations with renowned musicians, art and cultural institutions. Both sound systems, which are installed on tracked vehicles, refer to a little-noticed part of 20th century history in which sound was used as a weapon and ideological instrument by various political systems.
"Panzer" is based on Jamaican reggae sound systems, whose political and ideological appropriation also led to violence on the streets of Jamaica in the 1970s. The insectoid sound sculpture "The Mantis", on the other hand, refers to the so-called loudspeaker war that was waged by acoustic means on the German-German border from 1961 to 1965 during the Cold War.
In "Schizo Sonics", Nik Nowak combines both sound systems to create an expansive interdisciplinary installation. As in a loudspeaker war, "Panzer" and "The Mantis" confront each other in a border situation. However, not as ideologizing weapons, but as media for an audio essay that explores the historical-ideological dimension of sound in political space and its contemporary manifestations and examines the acoustic proxy wars that stretched from Germany to Jamaica to Korea during the Cold War.
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