Ten years ago, on June 6, 2007, the sound installation "Calling the Glacier" was presented to the public at the Venice Art Biennial. Since then, this work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions, discussed at symposia, cited by numerous media and "discovered" over again. A microphone on site transmits the sounds of nature directly and unprocessed to the caller. If you dial the number of the glacier, you will be there, in real time, anytime, from anywhere.

In 2007, climate change became the focus of public attention, if only breifly it might seem, and the glacier became a visible symbol of the global warming that ha already begun. The threat to our climate from the greenhouse effect has not changed since, and current political developments continue to give cause for concern.

The fact that "Calling the Glacier" is still active and will remain so for the foreseeable future is largely due to our cooperation with the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Their Department for Glaciology and Geodesy has accompanied "Calling the Glacier" from the beginning and attached it to their scientific measuring station on the Vernagt Ferner Glacier.

Detached from the short-lived art world, the sound installation is more like a virtual sculpture in public space, invisible and far away, but still real and verifiable. Visitors and work are not in the same visual place at the same time, but can meet in the same sound space.

At the glacier snout, view towards the Vernagt creek valley, in the background the gauging  station and the Vernagt Ferner Glacier.