The Wall Beneath the Street

The Wall Beneath the Street is a sound installation which departs in an intensive work with the sonic resonance of the rock wall placed next to (and around) Titanik as well as the spaces–or caves–of the gallery, located directly below the street. Madsen began this research when they were at Titanik A.i.R in October 2022 and continued their ideas connected to lithic listening with this specific granite wall as a departure point.

The titlehas in its phrasing a loose reference to a Situationist slogan connected to the 1968s demonstrations. This beach or beneath connects the act of taking out paving stones from the street for riots, which in this installation is extended to a relocation of geological entities connected to broader acts of resistance. These everyday lithic infrastructures which themselves have been violently shaped by humans are in focus, their eventness, queerness, and points of stability and collapse. They are here reconsidered with a critical, and artistic potential in mind. According to the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the political event is thus based on a series of amplified instabilities and fluctuations which in the 1968s uproar were connected to a need for a possibility for something else; creating new collective assemblages of agency and enunciation (Deleuze and Guattari 1984/2006). Those rocks of potential are reterritorialized as infrastructures but deterritorialized as tools of protest and means of artistic production. The Wall Beneath the Street wants thus to facilitate these modes of collective assemblages in its composite sonic nature, and its gestures of listening as a multiplicity–to the space, the street, the bodies present in them, and across them. It additionally connects enunciated words, randomized into a score, to enact these relations, and where the queer properties of geology are amplified in the space via their resonances.


The exhibition includes events:

Saturday 24.2. at 3–5 pm
sound performances by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and guest artist Malte Steiner

Sunday 10.3. at 1-3 pm
lithic listening walk with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen. The session begins and ends in the gallery. Language: English

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