Can I listen to your heartbeat for a minute? Berlin

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In this series, I mostly invite strangers to pause, experience and share a moment created by the sound of heartbeats and the tapping of the hands according to their rhythms. Both a participant and I wearing stethoscopes, we hold each other’s resonator against our own chests and listen to each other's heartbeats.
The stethoscope functions like a noise-canceling headphone in the midst of a hectic city. While engaging in an intimate act of listening, we tap each other's hands according to the heartbeat we hear. Each performance lasts for a minute.

The feeling of wanting to connect with people and the awkwardness that often arises from it co-exists. Frustration that comes with invasion of personal space and continuous search of individual boundaries are my inspirations for this performance. By skipping the initial ritual of making a small talk, I intend to get closer to the participants on the primitive level by listening to the sound source of our lives. This aims to act a minute long meditation in the fast paced world to take time for a person in front of one another and to experience the simple truth that we are alive now with our heart beating.

The videos of the past performances from the link below -