iMAK – Museum of Applied ArtsInnere Stadt
ANNEA LOCKWOOD: A SOUND MAP OF THE DANUBE
Presented with Wien Modern, Annea Lockwood's multichannel sound installation follows the Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, weaving river sounds with the voices of people who live by it.
More in Vienna
Preview: written before the show opened
A large wall map marks every place Annea Lockwood recorded the Danube, and a time display shows how far downriver the sound has got. The piece runs 167 minutes, from the headwaters in the Black Forest to the delta at the Black Sea, recorded over five trips from the banks and from above and below the water.
Woven into the river are twelve people for whom it is central, each speaking their own language, with a book of German and English translations. One of them, Michael Fröschl, a cabinet-maker from Grein, told Lockwood the current carries "a sort of crazy energy" you have to go along with. If your Danube is a towel on the Donauinsel in July, this is the other 2,800 kilometres.
It's a sound installation in the MAK Forum, not a room of objects. The free opening on 27 October at 6pm has Lockwood in conversation, in English. Entry is €19, or €15.20 with a Wien Modern pass, and it closes on 29 November.
Look for
The wall map and time display
Look for the large map marking each recording site, with a time display that lets you follow where on the river you are listening.
Twelve river voices
People whose lives revolve around the Danube speak in their own languages, with a book of German and English translations to read along.
The river from below the surface
Lockwood recorded from the banks and from above and below the water, so part of what you hear is the Danube from the inside.
Good for
- Going Solo
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Also at MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
On now nearby
Nearby
Image credits
9
- ANNEA LOCKWOOD: A SOUND MAP OF THE DANUBE© Nicole Tavenner
- tierisch menschlichGraciela Iturbide, Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas), Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1979. Dom Museum Wien, Otto Mauer Contemporary, Courtesy of the artist, Foto: L. Deinhardstein.
- A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew - Eran ShakineCourtesy of Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)
- The Special Case of Steffy Goldner: The New York Philharmonic's First WomanCourtesy of Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)
- MAK – Museum of Applied ArtsGugerell / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Dom Museum WienBauer Alfons / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Haus der MusikClemens Pfeiffer, Wikimedia Commons
- Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)Sonja Bachmayer / Jewish Museum Vienna, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kunst Haus Wien – Museum HundertwasserC.Stadler/Bwag, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0