Ørets Uskyld + Ilinx + DJ Jacob Eriksen

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Kom til fredagsbar om økokritisk lydkunst med panelsamtale, vokalperformance og lyttesalon på Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium. 

NOTE: Eventet foregår på engelsk.

Ørets Uskyld - En panelsamtale om lyd, økokritik og repræsentation. Inden for lydkunst bruges såkaldte field recordings - feltoptagelser - til at indsamle materiale fra omverdenen, som omsættes til lydkunstværker. Men er der problemer forbundet med denne type praksis? 

Panel
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Jacob Kirkegaard
Jacob Eriksen
Moderator: Nanna Y. Lund

Dørene åbner 15:45 / Eventstart 16:00

PROGRAM

16:00-17:30 Panelsamtale: Ørets Uskyld – Panelsamatale om lyd, økokritik og repræsentation
18:00-18:20 Performance ilinx: This Connection of Everyone With Lungs (tekst af Juliana Spahr)
18:20-19:30 DJ: Jacob Eriksen

ENGLISH:

Gong Tomorrow and RMC invites you to a Friday bar about eco-critical sound art with a panel discussion, vocal performance, and listening salon. 

Within sound art, so-called field recordists collect material from the around the world, which is converted into sound works of art. But are there any issues associated with this type of practice? The panel conversation raises questions about who represents and who is represented when artists collect sounds - Who holds the microphone and who or what is it pointed towards? Under the heading "The Innocence of the Ear", the conversation focuses on the relationship between sound art, eco-criticism, and representation. We have assembled a panel consisting of Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Jacob Eriksen and Jacob Kirkegaard. The conversation is moderated by Nanna Y. Lund and will be in English. 

The panel discusses whether microphones and recording technologies are neutral tools that merely document their surroundings. For example, songs of Chinese Minorities, melting glaciers in Greenland and animal sounds from the Amazon are some of the many recordings stored in Western archives. Sound artists, documentarians and music ethnologists often go to the Global South to collect field recordings without themselves originating from or have any relationship with the regions they portray.  

Is it an expression of inequity - and how does it affect the works of art created under these conditions? And what are the reasons why sound art has largely been exempt from the criticisms of representation, self-determination, and the return of objects from Western institutions, which play an increasingly important role in visual art? 

Panel 
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a contemporary artist, researcher, writer, and theorist. Chattopadhyay works across diverse media, such as sound, text, and moving images, incorporating various technologies such as sensors, AI, and Machine Learning. In addition, Chattopadhyay produces large-scale installations and live performances addressing urgent issues such as the climate crisis, human intervention in the environment and ecology, migration, race, and decoloniality. 

The work of Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed or unapproachable conditions and environments. His works have treated themes such as radioactivity in Chernobyl, melting ice in the Arctic, border walls in global and metaphorical contexts, immersive acoustic explorations into global waste management, and processes related to when a human being dies. Using his recordings of firearms, grenades and tanks, his most recent work explores the sound of warfare orchestrated for the Royal Lifeguard's Music Corps. His current work listens to the mechanical elements of agriculture and food production. The core element and method of Jacob Kirkegaard's work derive from using sound recordings of the tangible aspects of its intangible themes. 

Jacob Eriksen is an artist, researcher and lecturer at Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Berlin University of the Arts, and the director of Sound Art Lab and Struer Tracks. His research explores how more-than-human relations are addressed through critical posthumanism in sound art. His artistic practice is often focused on synthesized drones, ambiences, and noise in the forms of performances, installations, and videos. He is part of the art and theory collective Listening-With and the Berlin research colloquium Sonic Thinking. 

Moderator: Nanna Y. Lund 

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Ilinx: This Connection of Everyone with Lungs 

Ilinx casts spells, preserves, and protects with the power of the voice. The foundation for the group's work is a belief in the healing and preserving power of the voice, which, due to its bodily starting point, has an almost magical ability to create connections between people. In ilinx's voice-based space, references to medieval church music, 00s R'n'B divas and new compositional music are mixed, and music is created that both points forward and back in time. 

The group performs the American poet Juliana Spahr's poem ‘This Connection of Everyone With Lungs’. The poem examines the radical connectedness of all living things through the air we breathe and share, with its ever-expanding mantra: "As everyone with lungs breathes the space in and out". Their performance calls for a common, meditative space to emerge, where breathing takes centre stage. 

The doors open at 3.45 / The event starts at 4:00 CET

PROGRAM
4:00-5:30 Panel conversation: Sound, eco-criticism, and representation
6:00-6:20 Performance ilinx: This Connection of Everyone With Lungs (Text by Juliana Spahr)
6:20-7:30 DJ: Jacob Eriksen