Diana Karle: «Dry/Wet Stone Walls»
Departing from a landscape encounter in southwest Liguria, Italy, where terraced hillsides have been shaped by collective building of dry stone walls for centuries, the project investigates how acoustic practices can reveal what is held within these structures. A series of questions about relational perception of space and to sound as epistemological tool, will be explored through artistic research, drawing on sound art, acoustic ecology, and spatial composition. These questions will be pursued across the mediterranean and alpine cultural and ecological contexts of Liguria and Switzerland. Through close attention to traditional building processes and speculative engagement with future landscape transformations, while attuning to past presences, the project seeks to unfold in immersive spatial installations designed to foster embodied & multisensory engagement with the ecological, material, and cultural heritage embedded in dry stone walls.