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UPCOMING EVENT:
ARCTIC AUDITORIES: EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO ZINE WORKSHOP
23-25 May, Tromsø Kunstforening, Music Academy
Arctic Auditories is excited to invite researchers, writers, artists, musicians, makers, students and anyone with an interest in storytelling, sonic poems and experimental publishing to join our experimental audio zine workshop. Admission is free. No previous experience with sound as a medium is needed! Please bring your preferred headphones (with wire).
Flowing, flushing, freezing, streaming:
Listening at the intersection of human interference.
How do we attune to our surroundings and care for the lives in it?
How do we negotiate with beings that communicate in other languages?
Through exercises in improvisation, relational listening and sounding, the 3-day workshop invites participants to develop experimental sonic assemblages through listening closely to the waters that flow in and out of Tromsø/Romsa and responding to the streams that enable our daily existence and infrastructure.
What is the memory of the water that gushes into our sinks, warms pathways, drains through tubes and gutters, shifts from icy lakes to artificial snow? How have the currents witnessed the change in life around them, the waters always already listening? And what does it take to sustain a city like Tromsø in a warming sub-arctic environment?
Thinking through the prism of water, the workshop will engage with the concept of ‘listening at the bundling of trajectories’ through intersectional methodologies and the writings of Dylan Robinson, Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Anna Tsing, Pauline Oliveros, and Susan Schuppli.
Participants will work individually and in groups with a recording device, various microphones, a vibrotactile feedback setup, and a computer with audio editing and effects processing software. Please bring your preferred headphones (with wire) as we have only a few sets available. You’ll decide whether your focus for the audio zine will be on sound collage or writing and reciting in your language(s) of choice. We’ll conduct soundwalks and visit local heating and wastewater handling facilities. The resulting sound works will be shared as a live collective broadcast on the last day at Tromsø Kunstforening.
*There are no stipends available for travel and accommodation, unfortunately. However, participation in the workshop is for free for all.
**Friday at 11-16 | Saturday and Sunday at 12-17
About us
In our collaborative practice creating storytelling experiences from transdisciplinary assemblages, sound artist Andreas Kühne and artist, filmmaker Polina Medvedeva engage ways of listening-with landscapes and its agents to produce a feedback of the patchwork of historical, geopolitical and socio-economic layers.
Tromsø Kunstforening / RomssaDáiddasiida / Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art is a free space for contemporary art, exhibiting new, experimental art and artists. Starting in 1924, we continue to present boundary-pushing exhibitions, projects in public space, performances and workshops that are open to all.
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Soundwalking
We are exploring ways of caring for and engaging with our surroundings through sound, and for this purpose we’re using soundwalking and soundsitting as our method. A soundwalk or soundsitting entails a conscious effort to observe one’s surroundings through sounds as well as sight. It is a method that requires no special tools or lengthy instructions; your daily commute, sitting in your garden, walking through the woods, by a lake, or in a city.
We explore what happens when we shift our focus and consider the world by listening and being guided by what sounds are present or non-present. This way anyone can bring their knowledges to the table. How have these sounds changed over time? Which sounds have appeared or faded away? What other species are present with us? How do these sounds feel in the body, and are there ways we can connect these feelings into acts of care for our environs?
Online Writing League
In addition to paying attention to sonic knowledges (the knowledge we can glean through sound), we also want to explore sound and our local environment through storytelling. We have convened an Online Writing Group with locals and visitors, where we meet once a month to reflect and present our thoughts on place, water and sound. Follow us on Instagram to hear more.
Sound and Water
“Arctic Auditories – Hydrospheres in the High North” (RCN 325506, 2021-25) is an interdisciplinary project based in feminist methodologies. It engages scholarship and methods from sound arts, human geography and applied ethnomusicology to develop strategies for understanding environmental change through sound. Focusing on water environments, the ultimate aim of the project is to deliver innovative inter-disciplinary, empowering, and democratic listening strategies to help individuals and society more broadly, cultivate radical imaginations of futures beyond environmental anxiety.
Diverse methodologies
Through engaging in diverse listening processes, we seek to understand collectively non-hegemonic knowledges about how humans and more-than-humans live by, with, and in changing Arctic waters. On this basis, we aim to provide additional layers to the cartography of the High North. The findings will be conveyed to the wider public with an exhibition at the Polar Museum in Romsa/Tromsø.
