Sounding Care – A Sound Installation on Care Practices under Systemic Pressure

by Anthea Caddy and Magda Mayas

Fr., 21.11.2025 – 19:00 – Sa., 29.11.2025 – 22:00
Kleiner Wasserspeicher | Diedenhofer Strasse
10405 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Tickets: free entry

Opening Reception & Artist Talk: 21st November 19:00, with opening address by artist, writer and researcher Salomé Voegelin, installation open til 22:00

Installation Open: 22–29 November 2025, daily 14:00–19:00
Finissage: 29 November 2025, 18:00–21:00

Dress warmly, temperatures can be as low as 10 degrees.

Sounding Care is an ongoing, artist-led research project by Anthea Caddy and Magda Mayas that explores how sound, space, and language intersect with practices of care under systemic pressure.
The project builds from extensive interviews conducted with over forty voices—artists, theorists, and cultural workers from Berlin—which are spatially composed and installed within the historic Kleine Wasserspeicher, Prenzlauer Berg, creating an environment where listening becomes both a political act and a form of collective imagination.

The work transforms the reservoir’s distinctive acoustics into an active medium. The installation operates as a form of embodied cartography, where spatial arrangement becomes a method of knowledge production. Voices emerge, overlap, and resonate within the architecture, generating a multidimensional topology of clarity and opacity that foregrounds care not as a fixed ideal but as a situated practice of resilience, negotiation, and interdependence—mirroring the contradictions inherent in care work itself.

Set against a backdrop of economic precarity, censorship, and rising ideological division, Sounding Care amplifies voices often marginalised or silenced by systemic structures. It proposes sound and language as tools for resistance, reflection, and collective agency. In this way, Sounding Care transforms the Wasserspeicher into a thinking apparatus—a space where the complexity of care under systemic pressure is not merely represented but actively produced through the interplay of architecture, sound, and the listening body.

Sounding Care includes contributions from over thirty members of Berlin’s artistic community and beyond, whose voices form the living archive at the installation’s heart:

Bani Abidi, Ghayath Almadhoun, Dahlia Borsche, Candice Breitz, Tony Buck, John Butcher, Anthea Caddy, Marina Cyrino, Sherre DeLys, Sam Dunscombe, Jessica Ekomane, Dror Feiler, Denise Ferrante, Cedric Fermont, Judith Hamann, Steve Heather, Darsha Hewitt, Gregor Hotz, Mazen Kerbaj, Matthias Koole, Bani Khoshnoudi, KMRU, Nicole L’Huillier, Magda Mayas, Lina Majdalanie, Sandrine Micosse-Aikins, Nele Möller, Andrea Neumann, Michiko Ogawa, Gascia Ouzounian, Rike Offizier, Andrea Parkins, Simon J. Phillips, Marcin Pietruszewski, Taïca Replansky, Arlo Tomeckova, Anoushka Trocker, Kae Uchihashi, Salomé Voegelin, Siegmar Zacharias.

Each contributor engaged in extended conversations about care practices, solidarity, and creative work under systemic pressure. Their generosity in sharing knowledge, experience, and reflection makes this installation possible.

Developed in dialogue with the Toolkit of Care network (COST Action) and supported by the Gwaertler Stiftung.