Antechamber (2025)
Multichannel sound installation
Installation view of the exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2025, courtesy the artist.
Photo: Frank Sperling Installation view of the exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2025, courtesy the artist.
Photo: Frank Sperling Installation view of the exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2025, courtesy the artist.
Photo: Frank Sperling Installation view of the exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2025, courtesy the artist.
Photo: Frank Sperling Installation view of the exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2025, courtesy the artist.
Photo: Frank Sperling
Antechamber is a sound installation commissioned specifically for the attic of KW. The sound piece central to the installation presents simultaneous ways of experiencing the unfolding of time as a rhythmical event through alternative forms of subdividing it. Architecturally, antechambers are non-places, spaces of transition where the non-productive act of waiting becomes central to the experience of time itself.Multichannel sound installation
Photo: Frank Sperling
Photo: Frank Sperling
Photo: Frank Sperling
Photo: Frank Sperling
Photo: Frank Sperling
The real-time generated sound concept draws from a broader research on historically and culturally situated computation and mathematical knowledge systems. At KW, it cycled through 5 different timing systems : Unix Time, natural oscillations, Swatch Internet Time (.beat time), and two facets of west African timelines. Rhythm is employed as a tool for interpreting time, translating these systems into sound and bodily experience.
Facing all windows, the seating arrangement is designed to send the gaze in and out of the building, offering a space for socialising, or rest and reflection. Much like an antechamber or waiting room, the attic becomes a liminal site where time stretches, slips, pulses, and passes. Here, the body engages with alternative modes of knowledge through sound, and experiences the relationship between rhythm, mathematics, and time.
Credits
Medium: Multichannel sound installation, Mixed media
Dimensions: Variable
Courtesy: The artist
Special thanks to: Nathalie Pozzi (architectural advisor), and the install team of KW
Curator: Emma Enderby
Assistant Curator: Nikolas Brummer
Supported by: Institut Français, Trampoline
Exhibition history
Matt Copson, Sung Tieu, Milos Trakilovic, KW, Berlin, Opening: 14.2.2025 - Runs: 15.2–4.5.2025
Press and other texts
Presentation video
Curatorial interview
Tagespiegel, 13.02.2025
Groove Magazine