Buchstabensuppe
2025

Intermedia Installation

Foil balloons, helium, 10-euro note, dust, loudspeaker, 6-channel sound composition.

In an era of growing resource inequality, the proverb "everyone cooks only with water" serves as a reminder of the material dependency shared by all bodies, regardless of economic or social status. Within the water tower exhibition space, helium-filled foil balloons carry this message letter by letter through the air, rendering language simultaneously dematerialized and physically present.

Loudspeakers are suspended between the balloons, activating the vertical axis of the water tower. The six-channel sound composition begins with synthetic clicks, auditory fragments without spatial origin. These sounds gradually transform into recordings of falling euro coins, captured at different levels of the tower.

The use of euro coins invokes money as a resonating body while raising questions about economic value, resource circulation, and the physical manifestation of abstract systems. Capital becomes audible, not as a transactional unit, but as an acoustic trace within an architectural structure.

Photos: Juan Bermudez / Leon Senger

Video:  Arne Hertstein

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