ME+DoYouReadMe

Text-driven audio installation (4:29 min). Developed for Orbital at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin (2026)

Installation view

The headphones on the headphone holder play the audio work ME+DoYouReadMe; in front of these are small cards bearing the motif from the DoYouReadMe print series by Anna Kubelík.
Installation view, ME+DoYouReadMe

OVERVIEW

ME+DoYouReadMe is a text-driven audio installation created for the exhibition Orbital at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin in 2026. The voice shifts between the perspectives of a spruce tree, a bark beetle, a forest owner, and an orbital view from the International Space Station (ISS). From this vantage point, scale, time, and responsibility shift, and the local becomes planetary.

Rather than unfolding as a linear narrative, the text moves between proximity and distance, surface and body, reading and being read. The audio installation is part of a broader body of work closely related to a series of large-format prints by Anna Kubelík. Though conceived as an autonomous work, the installation unfolds its full effect within this relationship, extending the perception of the prints temporally and spatially.

AUDIO (TEASER)

Teaser (40 s): excerpt from the beginning.

EXHIBITION

The exhibition details are as follows:

  • Exhibition: Orbital
  • Venue: Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (Mercator Höfe, Potsdamer Str. 77–87, 10785 Berlin, Germany)
  • Vernissage / Private View: Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026, 6–8 pm
  • Exhibition dates: 8 January – 7 February 2026

EDITION / WORK DETAILS

  • ME+DoYouReadMe, 2026
  • Audio work, 4:29 min
  • Audio format: digital audio file (WAV)
  • Limited edition: 6 + 2 artist’s proofs (AP)
  • In conjunction with Anna Kubelík’s print series DO YOU READ ME I–VI
  • Each edition with a signed certificate of authenticity
  • Distribution: gallery edition

The audio work is available exclusively in conjunction with the respective prints; each print is paired with one edition of the audio work.

Copyright remains with the artists.

MEDIA

Collage of six prints DO YOU READ ME I–VI by Anna Kubelík.
DoYouReadMe I–VI by Anna Kubelík · collage
Invitation card for the exhibition Orbital with private view date and list of artists.
Invitation card: Orbital, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin

CREDITS

  • Text & sound design: Tarik Goetzke
  • Voice: Anna Kubelík (DE/EN)
  • Prints: Anna Kubelík
  • Production: KubelíkGoetzke

Extended

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ME+DoYouReadMe was created for the exhibition Orbital. The work is part of the ME+ series and closely related to ME+BeFallen, particularly in its exploration of more-than-human perspectives, material traces, and non-linear narrative forms.

The point of departure is a spruce forest in Upper Franconia that has been severely affected for years by drought, storms, and bark beetle infestation. This site is biographically motivated while also serving as an exemplary case study of the consequences of the human-made climate crisis and monocultural forestry practices.

ME+DoYouReadMe translates this concrete experience into a multi-perspective narrative that shifts between the points of view of plants, animals, humans, and technology. Following ME+Rome and ME+Beijing, the work expands the series by radically shifting scale: from forest to orbit, from local materiality to planetary distance.

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