PUBLIC RETREAT:
Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO)
Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK)
Johanna Fager (SE)

7–30 March 2024
Oksasenkatu 11 00100 Helsinki
Wed–Fri 13–18
Sat–Sun 12–17
Opening 7 March 17–22

PUBLIC RETREAT
...through the eye of the ear.
click, stop,
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Click. Click. Click. Stop.
The room shrinks.
Echoes.
What does this city sound like inside your head?
How would you draw it? Imagine, conceptualize and feel and dream and nightmare it?

Without even trying, we build whole worlds from spatial auditory memories.
Each of us follow our own internal maps, subconsciously herded by urban sonic markers.
Ding ding ding....
broooom broooom broom, beep, whirr, ta ta ta ta
*reverberant mumble of restaurant hall, shopping mall, train station*
*constant backdrop of motorized trafc*
*light bright vocalization of wind*