Ist Doch Schön Hier is an artistic research project that investigates the accessibility of dwelling through field recording, video, and text. Developed through fieldwork in the Onsernone Valley in Switzerland and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, the project reflects on how environmental, cultural, political, and economic conditions shape our ability to inhabit a landscape through listening.
It explores how landscapes become inhabited through physical presence, imagination, memory, and the conditions that shape perception.

The project originated from an interest in the parallels between the listening practice of the field recordist and the figure of the hermit. Rather than approaching hermitage as a historical or religious phenomenon, I investigate it as a way of relating to place: a mode of withdrawal, attention, and dwelling.

Ist Doch Schön Hier is a work in progress. The two tracks above document different stages of its development: a rehearsal take and a compilation of recordings, both presented during informal residency sharings in Onsernone and Svalbard.