"What do you normally expect from an ordinary set of speakers?"  

When devices no longer perform their intended functions, this conceptual media installation titled "Sorry, Devices are Broken" challenges long-standing boundaries of artistic classifications in which we were grounded. It disrupts the foundational functions of media equipment that audiences have been familiar with for decades, opening up space to explore new aesthetic contexts by applying synesthesia studies, a neurological phenomenon where stimulated senses trigger involuntary experiences in unrelated senses to connect the relevance between sight and sound (Chromesthesia), and indirectly link to other senses (touch, taste, smell). The concept questions about the definition of aesthetic experience by inviting you to move beyond sensory base, achieving comprehension through the perception and interpreting its communication freely." 

This project is supported by HAB (Hessen Abschluss Förderung) under the research topic 'Destruction of Art Paradigms: Implementing Synesthesia Studies as a Conceptual Approach to Media Art Practice to Discover Perceptual Fragmentation and Sensory Reassignment.' It aims to perceptual equity and universal accessibility, particularly awareness for individuals with sensory impairments, encouraging a new aesthetic of perceptual imagination. 

"Then, won't you lick the speaker?"

Methas Chantawongs is a Thai art practitioner currently based in Germany. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in filmmaking in 2016, he began working as a sound designer/composer and making independent avant-garde films. His work weaves together social, philosophical, and human elements through audio and visual context, constantly raising the conceptual questions he is passionate about. His pieces have been screened and exhibited in international film festivals/exhibitions and have received notable awards.

Since 2024 Chantawongs studies the MA in Cultural Media Art at Hochschule Darmstadt where he aims to develop a media-artistic dimension both practically and academically while expanding his 
into curatorial work. The exhibition "Sorry, Devices are Broken" is his graduation project.

Opening hours:
Thurday, July 30: 7-10pm
Friday, July 31: 3-7pm
Friday, August 7: 3-7pm