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The back side of an old abandoned distillery, turned into a cultural center called Monopol in Berlin, was lined up with remnants of a divergent human habitat. In the middle of this, stood a giant water tank with leftover waters that hadn’t moved for decades. Inside this water tank, demarcated by rusted tubes, metal fencing and cement walls, a human voice finds an unbelievable echo. Play invited its visitors to make the water cycle once again and have an imaginary dialogue with the abandoned space.

A six meter high ladder invited guests to climb up and discover the tank. A hidden water pump turned the giant pool into a water fountain of 12 meters high. A giant yellow hose with an opened “mouth” at its top invited people to talk into it. A hidden sensor turned off the fountain, once the visitor had climbed the stairs, allowing the necessary silence to start a dialogue. It is then, the imagination of the visitor that transforms this unusual fountain into an auditory playground.