Boris Hegenbart

In Rotaphonie, seperate acoustic elements circulate in the space defined by the TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound.

The composer and artist Boris Hegenbart describes this situation as an infrastructure that operates autonomously, comprised of sounds that move back and forth like industrial components in an assembly hall, accelerating and slowing down, sometimes coming to a standstill and allowing other objects to pass. Hegenbart proposes that sound and movement have a function in a context that is unknown to those hearing them; the artist communicates significance without revealing the meaning. So, the installation is not directed at a recipient per se. It exists in exactly the same way as the architectural situation it occupies does, as an ongoing presence that does not require the viewer.

Boris Hegenbart, born in Berlin in 1969, lives and works in Berlin. 86^th TONSPUR-Artist-in-Residence at MQ in Vienna.