Zuhören (You Can Listen)
An audio project in a forest near a Baroque castle in Stuttgart, Germany.
This project involved placing small wood boxes on trees. The boxes contained mp3 players that people were free to take with them while they enjoyed the forest and the surrounding area. The content on the mp3 players spanned 56 minutes and was a mix between my own writing and contributions from other artists and writers. The tracks included my own confessional audio journal about my quest to become a runner and my life as a child thief, a piece of short fiction, astrology, hypnosis, a philosophical dialogue about one’s place, a biography of a forgotten composer, journal entries from a man who claimed to be able to control the weather, a conversation with my stepfather about what it was like to stare into people’s mouths for 30 years (he was an orthodontist) and more. All of the pieces were in German and read by German actors. Contributors include Trentor Smith, Jon Rubin, Asha Schechter, Benjamin Lauterbach, Jantine Winjnja, and Jonathan Garfinkel + Jenny Zhang.
