Photo © eSeL, Joanna Pianka
Tautropfen / Gotas de Rocío
Juliana Herrero, Vienna Art Week 2025
Tautropfen is a site-specific installation and performative sound environment at Brigittaplatz. The glass pavilion becomes a living space where sculpture, sound, ecological reflection, and Sur(real)isation intertwine, allowing reality and imagination to coexist.
Recycled materials and subtle, responsive sound compositions create a fragile, attentive system, often revealing itself in the quiet of night or in rhythm with light and movement. Visitors are invited into a physical dialogue with the environment, experiencing learning as a shared, relational process.
Interwoven with ecological memory — from Amazonian rituals to Andean landscapes and the Amancay flower of Patagonia — sound, voice, body, and everyday objects weave together into immersive landscapes of rhythm and resonance, open to participation and improvisation. The pavilion becomes a space of encounter where human and non-human presence meet, and where listening, gesture, and attention create ephemeral constellations.
Tautropfen operates through low-tech means and embraces environmental rhythm: light, weather, and season shape when and how the work appears. Intermittence and partial functioning foreground vulnerability, care, and ecological attentiveness, allowing the environment itself to modulate experience.
During Vienna Art Week, the installation was activated through Sonic Dialogues — performative encounters led by the artist, inviting audience participation and improvisation. Beyond the pavilion, the surrounding public space became part of the work through collaborative actions, creating a resonance chamber for shared attention, ecological awareness, and poetic reflection.
Tautropfen proposes a hybrid model of knowledge at the intersection of sound, movement, ecology, and public presence, exploring how learning unfolds through connection, improvisation, and collective attentiveness within a fragile, mutable environment.
Collaboration partner: artists for future
Artist Talk: Maria Christine Holter (art historian) with Juliana Herrero (artist)
Photos © eSeL, Joanna Pianka
Opening * Performance with participation of the audience
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