Nachtwachen
audiovisual piece
video by Karl Alexander Schickhardt
2024/26
11:57 min
Nocturnal field recordings, layered and heavily distorted, recombined into a dense, fast-paced, violent sonic environment and fragmented images at disorienting speed, evoking a state of intense, sustained agitation, akin, for example, to the sensation of insomnia.
Karl Alexander Schickhardt: https://karlalexanderschickhardt.info
Premiered at Aktionshaus Berlin in 2024.
Displayed at the Centre Dürrenmatt in Neuchâtel in 2025/26.