Residency artists and researchers Sound art Gabi Schaffner MA Artist, Writer<br /> I work as a travelling artist. My media are photography, text (written and spoken) and audio (field recordings). The material is assembled into – often hand-manufactured – books, installations for photography and audio art, into CD- or vinyl record productions or it is presented as a performance disguised as a lecture. The contents embrace themes ranging from self-made architectures, order & disorder in private chambers to field music studies and imaginary landscape concepts. In my work, I try to encourage communication, non-hierarchic perspectives and sharing. This is why I like the amalgamation of different media and the experimental shift of identity into/between different cultures. Within this frame, field recording is treated as a carrier of cultural concepts, just as (documentary) photography is a carrier of visually encoded cultural messages.