seeing with ears

seeing with ears

“Seeing with ears” is a site-specific performance designed for the specific acoustic and spatial situation of the former water reservoir “Grosser Wasserspeicher”. It is a research about the human capacity, to develop a three-dimensional image based on the audible sense.

A blind performer, a musician and dancer explore the principle of echo-location through through palatal clicks (click-sonar) and recordings of bat sounds.

A work about the limitation of our senses and the unattainability of the other.


Performance: Silja Korn, Polett Kasza, Angelina Kartsaki

Sound Design: Sebastian Schlemminger, Angelina Kartsaki

Scientific Advisor: Eva Coenen

Concept / Artistic Director: Katia Engel

Sound Recordings of Bats: Reinald Skiba – from the Archive of animal sounds Museum of Natural History Berlin

Technical Director: Sebastian Schlemminger

Das Projekt had beed funded by Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur Pankow

in cooperation with: Tierstimmenarchiv des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin, Internationales Fledermausmuseum Märkische Höhe/Brandenburg, Allgemeiner Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverein Berlin e .V.