Photo © Simono
“Membran brizz” is a surreal audio journey through layers of history, memory, and fiction. This site-specific sound project combines authentic texts, voices, tones, and sounds from the estate with experimental sound collages to create an immersive experience.
Audio Walk: Each visitor receives “silent disco” headphones and can move freely in all directions across the estate grounds within a radius of over 100 meters. Listeners embark on a journey between historical reality and manipulated experience—a reflection on perception, memory, and the boundaries between fact and fake news.
Simono works with voices & texts: Excerpts from historical documents, fictional diaries, newspaper articles, and purported news reports (“fake news” as an artistic device), as well as surrealist sound montages. A non-linear narrative that oscillates between nostalgia, dystopia, and absurdity. An audio walk as a site-specific membrane between documentation, transience, and manipulation.
The Membrane Idea
Space is not a static structure, but a living system that absorbs, transmits, and transforms stimuli. Perception arises in the in-between — in the exchange between inside and outside, presence and resonance. This is also the central idea behind both the concept of um | raum and the audio project.
Simono initiated the | raum project and developed it in collaboration with the Britz Cultural Foundation. Eight artists have been invited to create and present site-specific installations combining light and sound in the spaces on the grounds of the Britz estate. An analog film program will also be shown.
In reference to her 1998 Super 8 installation “Rotation zur See,” Simono has installed Bridge Markland’s dance vignettes as a window triptych in the foyer.
Website: simono.de
