Christian Naujoks’ artistic practice moves between music, visual art, and artistic research. He develops works that address the fragility of hearing and disclose experiences of body and sound as processual events. In this context, the artist approaches composition as an extended field in which spatial and social processes unfold across different media and situations. Naujoks’ interdisciplinary practice encompasses sound installations, film, graphic and textual notations, sculptural works, musical compositions, as well as participatory and performative settings.

For Kunstverein Bielefeld, the artist is conceiving a new multichannel sound work along with spatial settings for expanded listening. The work explores the transition from language to music as well as the relationship between inner and outer perception. Voice, spoken texts, rhythm, and sound become compositional material, intertwining and flowing into one another. The exhibition explores how sounds settle in the body, persist in…