The multidisciplinary art project “Centre of sounds, margin of silence” was created by artists Tea Hatadi, Marta Banić and Bojan Mucko. Project brings together established artists from Colombia, Croatia and Switzerland by opening a new chapter of international cooperation. Focus is put on the exploration of the sonic landscapes of city spaces, their gravitational zones and periphery through urban centres – Zagreb, Zadar, Zurich, Santa Marta and Bogotá. By sound-mapping of the daily life of urban centres, project aims to combine both – local, familiar environment with foreign, unfamiliar one into a hitherto unexplored comparative relation, explore their convergence and divergence points, and open the possibility of new ways of understanding since these cities have significantly different tactics of urban planning.

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By recording the sound of a city space, moving between its centre and periphery, we take an experimental approach to urban topography, as well as our own physical positioning in urban spaces. Starting with everyday ways of being and moving in urban space, such as walking or running, waiting, sitting, etc., we explore the space-specific art practices and the performatory potential of recording / listening to sound. In moving from the centre toward the periphery, we form a sound map of the city, describing the known as well as the imaginary urban topography; residential complexes, playgrounds, parks, main roads, central squares, static places, residential chambers, periphery entry points, temporary oases... Using the method of recording the sounds of urban spaces, focusing on the relationship between sound and architecture, urban infrastructure and urban planning policies, we explore how the quality of the recorded sound enables the formation of specific socio- political and cultural narratives.

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We treat the sound material as a means to indirectly pose socioeconomic and spatial-political questions regarding housing, use of public space and representation or imagination of a specific urban, social whole.

In reference to the theoretical and artistic research by Brandon Labelle, we pose the question of how a method of listening can consequently affect the understanding of the community, diversity and future of the city.

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First part of the project was held in January and February 2017 in Bogotá and Santa Marta with artists: Sylvia Jaimes, Esneider Alfonso Gamboa Burbano, Fernando Pertuz, Ricardo Andrés Bautista, Mirjam Wanner, Almira Medaric, Bojan Mucko, Tea Hatadi, Goran Škofić, Josip Zanki, guests artist: Natalia Guevara, Juan José Tahua and with the professors and students for the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Visuales.

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Second phase of the “Center of sound, margin of silence" will be held in September 2017 in Zagreb in collaboration with both, institutional and independent partners: Greta Gallery, Technical Museum Nikola Tesla, Društvo Arhitekata Zagreb (DAZ) and Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU).