Performance & Choreography: Sade Mamedova
Sound Design: Lucia Böhm

no wind no word is a twelve-minute multichannel video and sound installation. The work explores the interrelationships between body, space, sound, and image. These elements are not understood as separate media, but rather as a shared system in which they influence one another. Intuition serves as the artistic method here.

The installation was created in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Sade Mamedova. Instead of a predetermined choreography, a clearly defined spatial and technical framework serves as the starting point. Multiple cameras, microphones, and a geophone record the same situation. The technology serves not only for documentation but becomes an integral part of the work itself, shaping the perception of movement, sound, and space.

The starting point for the installation is the roof of the Large Studio at the HfG Karlsruhe. Although it is located in the center of the building, it appears deserted and is normally inaccessible. The architecture and atmosphere of the location influence the performance and make it possible to experience how strongly spatial conditions shape perception and action.

The sound consists exclusively of recordings from the performance: breathing, footsteps, friction, resonances from the roof structure, and ambient noise. Music and speech are deliberately omitted. Breathing serves as the work’s metronome, linking movement, sound, and film editing. Three synchronized projections show the same moment from different perspectives. It is only through the interplay of image, sound, and the visitors’ movements that the installation comes into perception. There is no fixed vantage point and no unambiguous view of the action.

The performance develops exclusively from the interplay of body, space, and sound. It does not tell a linear story, but rather makes states of being tangible and opens up associations with memory, projection, and inner dialogues, without definitively defining them.

no wind no word explores how the body, technology, and architecture collectively generate perception. The installation invites viewers to embrace ambiguity and experience perception as an open-ended process. At the same time, it serves as the starting point for further artistic research in which the interplay of body, space, sound, and technology is developed in new spatial and performative contexts.