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Installations
Marc Behrens’ … visual art installations are usually touching the verge of bare audibility and encourage the viewer to participate actively with heightening awareness of his/her own auditory perception process. [Nataša Petrešin, Catalogue «Sound in Art», Space–Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Art, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 2001]
2011
RECURRENT
sound installation
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(«Paivascapes #1», Paiva river at Espiunca, Arouca, Portugal)
2010
APPARATUS
sound installation
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(IMO, Copenhagen, Denmark)
2009
GGAAFFISEC
sound installation
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(Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
2008
UNIT
sound installation
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(«Farewell to Post-Colonialism. The Third Guangzhou Triennial», Time Museum/Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China)
2007
CONTINUUM
installation
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(«Sleppet», Galleri 3,14, Bergen, Norway; Ultima, Oslo, Norway)
2005
ENTITY MÜLHEIM
sound and video installation
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(«Mülheimer Profile 2005/Mülheim klingt», Kulturbunker Mülheim, Cologne, Germany; 7th annual SOUNDplay Festival, Theatre Centre, Toronto, Canada)
2003
PIOGGIA DI TOPOLÒ / TOPOLOVSKI DAZ /
RAIN OF TOPOLÒ

with Nikolaus Heyduck
sound installation with rain
2002
ENTITY K
sound installation
(Schmuckmanufaktur Kneist, Darmstadt, Germany)
Simple sound installation. Sound playback controlled by a motion detector accompanying a jewellery exhibition.
2001–2006
THE UNKNOWN
interactive sound installation
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(«Sound In Art», Space–Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; WackerKunst, Mühltal, Germany; Podewil, Berlin, Germany; Correnti Sonore, Centro Europeo Luciano Ceschia, Tarcento/UD, Italy; «Electrograph03», Athens, Greece; «Observatori 04», Valencia, Spain; «Glück und Konsum», Wiesbaden, Germany)
2000–2005
TOKYO CIRCLE
interactive sound installation
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(«Sound Art – Sound as Media», ICC InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan; INM-Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, Germany; «Hörgänge», Hermannshof Völksen, Germany; Galerie t-u-b-e, Munich, Germany; «Erlanger Hörkunstfestival», Markgraphentheater, Erlangen, Germany; «b!as Sound Art Exhibition», Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan)
1999
EXPERIMENT IN SCALE
sound and video installation
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(«Projekt: Medusa» Kunst.verladehalle, Rüsselsheim, Germany)
1999
KEYHOLES
interactive sound installation
1998
ENTITY INM
sound installation
(«Salon Vireal», INM-Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, Germany)
Sound recordings of the server room in the institute were processed and played back in shifting layers over a six-channel speaker system distributed over two and a half building floors. A sound entity that overlaps the actual physical space in at least four dimensions.
1998
PROJEKT ZA ZNOJILE TELEFONSKE KARTICE [Project for Znojile Telephone Cards] and KOMUNIKAZIJSKI INSTRUMENT ZA OHRANJANJE STIKA Z IZGINULIMI [Communication Instrument for Keeping Contact with the Vanished]
installation
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(«Transverzala Utrinkov», Strzišce, Znojile and Kal, Slovenia)
1998
L’ECO DI UN’ESPLOSIONE CHE NON HA MAI AVUTO LUOGO [The Echo of an Explosion that never Took Place]
sound and film installation
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Stazione di Topolò – Postaja Topolove», Topolò, Grimacco/UD, Italy)
1998
MODEL FOR A WHITE OUT
installation with sound
(G-Werk Ost, Frankfurt, Germany)
Two shelves in an industrial shelving system housing a group exhibition, embraced a neon tube. A transparent text print (an excerpt on attack tactics under difficult weather situations) was glued onto the tube. A peep-hole permitted view to some rice grains in motion on the membrane of a hidden speaker, immersed in intense red light. A high static crackling on a second speaker parasited another artist’s sculpture nearby.
1998
ENVIRONMENT
installation with sound
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(rraum, Frankfurt, Germany)
1997
TOP DOWN / BOTTOM UP
sound installation
(Galerie Fruchtig, Frankfurt, Germany)
Linked to the discovery of the ‹up›/‹down› and ‹top›/‹bottom› quarks, the latter only observed in short-lived matter. Rice grains on the membranes of three bass speakers’ membranes mounted under the planks of a wooden walkway jumped up when sounds occurred on the speakers, affected by wind intensity.
1996
BLACK BOX / LIGHT BOX
light and sound installation
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(Selektion, Frankfurt, Germany)
1996
VIENNA INSTALLATION
with Bernhard Günter
sound installation
(Path. Anat. Bundesmuseum Narrenturm, Vienna, Austria)
A sound installation was implanted into several cells of the circular museum building. A stereo source was distributed to 8 channels and manipulated with long delays to create a sound entity moving through the building.
1996
CIRCLE
sound installation
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(version 1: B-Movie, Hamburg, Germany, version 1.1: Dampfzentrale, Bern; and Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland)
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