TONundTON 1999

This installation was realised in five places chosen for the purpose in the park at the Meisenberg Women’s Psychiatric clinic in Zug. A woman’s life – birth, inner world, outer world, spirituality and death – was the subject, presented in abstract form. For the visual part of the installation, Theres Stämpfli chose the sphere as the form throughout. The acoustic part was women’s voices, processed by sampling technology, hence semantically only intelligible as scraps of sound, although the ductus of their speech was retained.

	TONundTON 1999 la vie
	Meisenberg Zug






	Die Installation wurde an fünf ausgewählten Orten im Park der psychiatrischen Frauenklinik Meisenberg in Zug realisiert. Das Leben einer Frau – Geburt, Innenwelt, Aussenwelt, Spiritualität und Tod – wurde in einer abstrakten Form thematisiert. Für den visuellen Teil der Installation wählte Theres Stämpfli die Kugel als durchgehende Form. Den akustischen Teil bildeten die Stimmen von Frauen, die mittels Samplingtechnik bearbeitet und dadurch nur bruchstückhaft semantisch verständlich waren, ihren Sprachduktus jedoch beibehalten hatten.
	This installation was realised in five places chosen for the purpose in the park at the Meisenberg Women’s Psychiatric clinic in Zug. A woman’s life – birth, inner world, outer world, spirituality and death – was the subject, presented in abstract form. For the visual part of the installation, Theres Stämpfli chose the sphere as the form throughout. The acoustic part was women’s voices, processed by sampling technology, hence semantically only intelligible as scraps of sound, although the ductus of their speech was retained.
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