Write Once Read Many, or short WORM, refers to a specific storage medium for digital data. Once stored on WORM, digital information cannot be overwritten or deleted, but can be read again and again.

With her site-specific audio walk and the recurring unannounced performance sequences, Sophie Germanier invites visitors to read the Messe Areal Basel physically and sensually. Like any place, Sophie Germanier sees the Messe Areal Basel as a large storage body whose information, or stories, cannot be deleted or changed, but can be read and rewritten again and again from new perspectives. Inspired by the earthworm and its digestive mechanisms, Sophie Germanier uses it as a figure of thought analogous to the storage bodies of places. Through the direct physical exchange with its surroundings, the earthworm opens up complex and sensual readings that question the principles of conventional human ways of thinking.

Performers:
Mira Maria Studer,
Sol Jarkovich,
Marie Jeger,
Sophie Germanier,
Juliette Uzor

Photo Credits: Linn Henz

The work has been shown during the Nomination of the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Kunstpreis

audio walk

vimeo link