Late in November stereo and 7.0 surround sound, 10 min loop, 2023
The sounds and movements of the cat in my mothers apartment became an illusory sense of my fathers presence, as the cat was so directly associated with him. I decided to spend Maximilians’ last hours alive with him and record all his body sounds and movements.
In the work you enter a cats’ body, magnified and amplified into a creature much larger than a human being. I wanted to approximate the experience of the cat, who’s unable to see or hear, but moves around by using smell, sensory hair and memory – resembling some kind of subterranean animal.
This work will be exhibited at Konstakademien at the Spring Exhibition 2024. I will conceal two low-frequency speakers inside a mat-black box, with no visible chords. The box will vibrate with the purring of the cat. I will put a padded seating on the box and the audience is invited to sit on it.