1985
PROMENADES (Untitled) by Max Neuhaus.
Exhibition: Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland- Extant: June 9 – September 8, 1985

Image: Max Neuhaus Circumscription Drawings
Untitled, 1993

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Promenades exhibition in the Parc Lullin in Geneva, Max Neuhaus installed a  'Work in a pedestrial tunnel linking two parts of the park. On walking through the tunnel, the listener hears the sound become louder and clearer, and has the impression of approaching the source of the sound. However, on leaving the end of the tunnel and entering the open air, the sound suddenly becomes inaudible. The chance of location from tunnel to park is linked with the unexpected absence of the sound which until then had caught the listenerís attention and aroused expectations of arriving at the source of the sound. Instead of the source of the sound, the park emerges as the place where the sound is not..'

"Max Neuhaus’ Sound Installation filled the long bleak tunnel that runs beneath the road and the railroad tracks, connecting the separate halves of the park, with modulated, subtly unreal environmental sounds like the chirping of crickets. The journey through the darkness became an enlightenment."

Adelina von Fürstenberg, director of Geneva’s Centre d’Art Contemporain. curator of Exhibition: "Promenades" exhibition: Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland- Extant: June 9 – September 8, 1985