The exhibition space for this year's PAPIRIPAR Festival is being designed by Scotsman Luke Fowler and Japanese artist Ryoko Akama. Both artists are distinguished by their multimedia interplay between creative fields. In Akama's site-specific works, acoustic and visual events combine to form an immersive whole. Her expertise in shaping objects into kinetically sounding devices is intended to merge with Fowler's model in such a way that the space transforms into a resonating body that connects with the ideas of musician Daphne Oram. Their first collaboration will be accompanied acoustically by a composition that blends the voices of Oram's contemporaries with her own. On site, this polyphony is distributed across several islands, as if painted into the space. Combined with dimly lit archival material and the whir of 35mm slide-projectors, they invite visitors on a journey through space and time—not unlike the waveforms Oram draws on transparent tracks—creating an analogue immersion.

(c) photos by Claudia Höhne