X is a letter, whose...comprises a performative practice as well as a series of sculptures, electronic sounds and installative gestures, revolving around the escapist power of fantasy. Through introverted and closed-off gestures that evoke states of withdrawal, it explores the double meaning of whistling and humming as both inward, self-performative sonic practices – something someone only does for oneself – and modes of communication. Like listening to the sonic imagination of someone whistling a tune, the work carries with it an imaginary song that seems to only exist as a deconstructed score beyond what is audible. The work seeks for music to be an ambivalent invitation to hallucinate about it. A space in which sounds appear both as themselves and as vessels for imagining other worlds, songs, characters and places.
















X is a letter, whose lines meet where we meet again, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, 28.2.2026, Vienna © Ronja Elina Kappl
X is a letter, whose lines meet where we meet again
Performance
45 min
2026





Sumer is icumen in, an afternoon of (performative) readings at Prosopopoeia Vienna, 6.7.2025, pic 1-3 © Dila Kaplan
X is a letter, whose edges are made for scratching
Performance
25 min
2025
X is a letter, whose edges are made for scratching is part concert, part reading and explores figures of cowboys and angels through a sonic lense. Its text is loosely based on the life of German adventure novelist and impostor Karl May, who started writing Westerns while in prison in the late 19th century. I was particularly drawn to this moment of escaping reality – in his case a literal prison – through writing. Thinking about how sound as a kind of pre-linguistic event is disconnected from its source, I try to imagine listening as a writing practice that could offer a portal to imaginary worlds.
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Soft Shelled, Akademie Graz, 19.12.2024, Graz © Johanna Lamprecht
X is a letter, whose twigs built our campfire
performance
20 / 45 min
2023 / 24
Originally called call, but retroactively incorporated into this series with a new title.
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