Clouds in the Living Room is a poetic architectural audioscape uncovering the elements of a roof construction and their relation to the inhabiting bodies gathered within and below. The elements’ structural interplay translates the collective act of load-bearing into a permeable and transforming skeleton of support. Originally conceived as a sound and audio performance, now recorded, it interweaves the process of dismantling with a reflection on power and democratic values, and with the widespread dissolution and inaccessibility of society’s load-bearing elements. The piece calls for these elements to become yet again collective, supportive, transformative, and living anchors by discarding created enclosures of alleged protection. Invoking an open structure enhancing fluidity, natural and supernatural forces collide by speaking to and from and into and of and within an unclad, uncovered, roofless timber structure.

Anna Barbieri is an artist working in architecture focusing on video, sound and text. She is member of “Die Fitten Titten,” a Lo-fi-electro-feminist artist punk band collective and based in Vienna, Austria. “Clouds in the Living Room” was mixed and mastered by Martin Rovan.