Led by the idea that to develop an appropriate cartography for complex spaces, i began to read the city as a three-dimensional text, a living structure. By field-recording acoustic landmarks in the public area, a subjective vector space is spanned over the city, creating individual sound-maps, through which a redefinition of urban orientation takes place. From this point a process of writing signs and drawing letters along the borderline between significant and significat started. Using psycho-geographic research texts were written into the structure of the city, replacing names of streets by texts about the city. Assuming shape of an multidimensional book, a new relationship between sound, city, orientation and text is identifie

Year: 2003
Material: paper cut outs, found sound cut ups, ...
Location: Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Concept & Realisation: Nikolaus Gansterer in collaboration with Joerg Piringer

Installation views:  take_off2, Steirischer Herbst 2003