DANIEL WEYAND
Daniel Weyand is a Berlin-based sound artist, performer and curator working at the intersection of listening, performance and public space. In 2019 he co-founded the German-Brazilian collective Po:era with artist Lucas Lacerda, developing site-specific works that combine field recordings, voices and live situations to explore belonging and shared experience. Their projects include the audio/video walk Herzberge Stories (2021), the multimedia dinner MOQUECA (2021/22), and the audio walks Strange Force (2022) and A Bridge to the Future (2023, Brücke-Museum Berlin). Recent collaborations include the science-fiction sound installation CALADRI with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is also curator of the annual site-specific art festival ONSITE.
Daniel Weyand works with sound as a spatial and relational medium. Using field recordings, voices and recomposed soundscapes, he creates immersive situations in which audiences connect not only to a narrative but to each other and to the histories embedded in a place. His compositions range from raw documentary textures to highly shaped sonic environments, always designed for listening in motion. Headphones are his primary performance tool. By placing intimate sonic worlds inside public space, he blurs the boundary between fiction and immediate reality. The audience listens individually yet experiences collectively, moving through environments where sound reorganizes perception, memory and social proximity.
For ten years, he has worked as a project manager at the intersection of urban practice, cultural production, and education. From 2013 to 2020, he led the departments of Global Citizenship Education, International Youth Exchange, and Cultural Education at the non-profit organization Solidaritätsdienst International. As part of this work, he mentored young filmmakers within an exchange project between Germany and Cameroon and produced films addressing themes such as gender, racism, and social inequality. In 2019, he completed a training program at the Social Sculpture Research Unit in Oxford, where he developed knowledge, methods, and practices aimed at fostering a socially and ecologically sustainable future.