Enquête sonore des habitants: Cité Charles Hermite, 2020. Nerea Gil and Morgana Horst. Posters, booklet and audio/video pieces, variable dimensions. Curated by Nerea Gil et Valentine Mahé-Clemot. Exhibition La Maison Jaune, 2023. Saint-Denis, FR.
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Enquête sonore des habitants: Cité Charles-Hermite is a project developed within the Ecology of Arts and Media Master’s program at Université Paris 8. Based on attentive listening and encounters with residents of the Charles-Hermite neighborhood in Aubervilliers, the work gathers testimonies about their perception of the everyday sound environment—familiar noises, disturbances, pleasures, and personal stories linked to the place. These narratives form a sensitive mapping of the neighborhood’s acoustic landscape.
Presented through posters equipped with QR codes linking to audio and video recordings, the installation transforms public space into a site of shared listening. Combining sensitive research and documentary creation, the project explores how sound shapes our relationship to place and our experience of collective life.