Electrical Walks

Electrical Walks by Berlin multimedia artist Christina Kubisch open a completely surprising view of our usual surroundings. Whoever discovers the streets, buildings and shopping centres of Montréal or Québec, with headphones developed by Kubisch, will never see visual images of the city in the same way again. With this event, the artist makes us accomplices. We hear the inaudible around us and we become composers of our environment.
The electrical walks have fascinated people in various cities in Europe and the Americas since 2004, and they are now coming to Canada for the first time. Electromagnetic fields which we are continually in contact with, through communication and security systems, wireless information transmission and other circuits, are captured through special sensors and transformed into audible frequencies.
Christina Kubisch will design these walks for Montreal and Québec in September 2008 and present them in a concert.

The Goethe-Institut’s partners for this event are the Complexe Méduse in Québec and the Oboro Gallery in Montreal. Also in collaboration with the Oboro Gallery, Christina Kubisch will be offering a master class for composers and sound artists on September 16, 17 and 18.