I Swear I Was Here
Site-specific Installation (2021)
Echo Ho crafted a poetic soundtrack „I Swear I was Here,“ for the Academy‘s garden. Listeners experience a composition that melds unusual instrumental sounds with polyphonic, electronically processed vocal elements and field recordings from Nepal and Japan, as well as artist‘s own garden, a time-traval from 2012 to 2021.
A red knitting lace, an artificial rhizome, marks a temporary dwelling at its point of arrival—a moment of encounter between places and things, beings from the surroundings, and random visitors. It invites one to gaze at the here and now, where listening spans time and space.
Description: A red knitting lace, an artificial rhizome.
Medium: Red wool knitting on a a domestic hand-knitting machine, an audio composition.
Credits: The work was initialy exhibited the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.