Photo © eSeL, Joanna Pianka
Tautropfen / Gotas de Rocío: Sonic Dialogues
An art project by Juliana Herrero
Tautropfen / Gotas de Rocío is a site-specific ecological sound installation at Brigittaplatz, Vienna, activated through Sonic Dialogues—performative, participatory encounters inviting visitors into shared listening and reflection. The glass pavilion becomes a living laboratory where sculpture, sound, movement, and ecological memory intertwine, allowing human and non-human presence to coexist.
Rooted in Latin American ecological memory, including Amazonian rituals, Andean landscapes, and the symbolic Amancay flower of Patagonia, the project explores knowledge as a relational practice, grounded in attention, care, and collective presence.
The installation is built from recycled materials and manually composed spatial sound, evolving as a low-tech environment shaped by light, weather, and seasonal change. Hidrolitos de Fuego N1 expands the installation’s sonic world while also existing as an independent composition, weaving natural sounds, voice, and strings into an emotional and cultural landscape. A brief field recording from Vienna anchors the work to its urban site.
Through embodied participation and improvisation, visitors co-create ephemeral constellations of sound, movement, and attention. Beyond the pavilion, the surrounding public space becomes a resonance chamber for ecological awareness and shared learning.
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.
The project reflects on questions of access to technology, ecological cost, and community-based knowledge, offering a poetic and participatory perspective on social and technological futures.
Collaboration: Artists For Future Austria
Artist Talk: Maria Christine Holter with Juliana Herrero
Vienna Art Week Program: [Tautropfen / Gotas de Rocío: Sonic Dialogues zur VIENNA ART WEEK
Ein Kunstprojekt von Juliana Herrero]
Photos © eSeL, Joanna Pianka
Opening * Performance with participation of the audience
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