Installation for group show: “Speculative Properties”, June 2023

listening+moving interventions throughout the staircases of the artist's studios at Adalbertstrasse 9 in Kreuzberg, Berlin

Ira Hadžić
OPERATION DEEP LISTENING - architectural score for listening and moving 

OPERATION DEEP LISTENING revolves around one of humanity's most ancient and increasingly endangered skills: the ability to listen. This installation features a collection of bilingual (English and German) written instruction scores, creating an interactive space where visitors can engage in listening as an active and immediate experience. By engaging with these kōan-like scores, each participant enters into a direct dialogue with the architectual site at Adalbertstraße 9, delving into the profound interconnectedness of space, place, time, community, and self.

The focus of OPERATION DEEP LISTENING is on the intelligence of our own bodies as essential tools for creation. In our ancestral days as hunters and gatherers, listening was vital for survival. Today, this act of listening can be transformed into a form of activism.