IRIS VOSS





Artist working with sound, image, and place.

My practice explores listening as a way of understanding landscape. Through sound, text, and image I work with ecology, time, and memory.


irisvosshere@gmail.com

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WORKS




2025
Silent Spring

A site-specific sound installation developed at Maajaam / Wild Bits residency in Estonia. Hand-cranked transmitters broadcast recordings of the forest through birdbox radios, creating a network of fragile signals. The piece reflects on ecological loss and the disappearance of patient listening in an age of urgency and noise.

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2024 Field Cards (Wish You Could Hear)

An ongoing series of fragmentary works combining field recording, poetic text, and image. Each sonogram preserves a moment in time and space — a bell at midnight, rain on a wooden hut, the tremor of insects inside timber — stamped and mailed as a postcard from a place the viewer may never visit. The project explores listening as a form of correspondence across distance.


2024The Grain of Place

A series of works using printmaking techniques to capture sound through contact with the environment. Surfaces drawn directly from the landscape — stone, timber, plant matter, mineral fragments — act as carriers for lithographic transfers. Movements in the environment and vibrations from recordings are absorbed into these materials, binding acoustic traces to the substance of place itself. Each piece functions as both trace and transformation: a fragment of landscape marked by sound.



2022
No Fixed Place

A moving-image work set in Kraków’s Kazimierz district and the site of the former Jewish Ghetto. Contact microphones and geophones are pressed against walls, pipes, and foundations, uncovering vibrations normally beyond hearing. The camera lingers on fragile, overlooked architecture while the soundtrack carries the city’s buried acoustic body. In a landscape once marked by absence and ruin, now redeveloped and commodified, memory persists as resonance: faint, displaced, and trembling beneath the surface of urban renewal.



2021
Even If You Won’t Grow, I Will

A moving-image and sound work tracing the fragile yet insistent growth of plants in the cracks and margins of the city. Through field recordings and close video observation, the project attends to weeds pushing through concrete, vines climbing derelict façades, and wildflowers reclaiming forgotten corners. The work frames these small eruptions of life as acts of persistence within a built environment that resists them. Both document and metaphor, the piece reflects on resilience, adaptation, and the quiet force of non-human survival in urban space.








                








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