Xook K’iin - Workshop on Ant behaviour
On Worlding and Dreaming
Artistic Research through Radio and Somacoustic listening session
24. November 2023
19.00-23.00
19.00-23.00
Save the Date
for free
for adults
in English
What might it mean to listen beyond the human? Is it possible to reorient our sensing, and understanding of voice, to extend more boldly toward other life forms? Can artistic practices and performance open pathways of co-existence and trans-species collaboration so as to nurture biodiverse sustainability and worlding? Bringing together artists, musicians, ecologists,and educators to create and perform, nurture and grow innovative approaches to ecological interconnectivity, the project "Swamps & Stars" aims at sounding out new forms of planetary practice. This includes addressing a spectrum of ecologies.
Part of the series "Swamps & Stars" organised by the group Planetary Listening funded by the Berlin Senate's Spartenoffene Förderung.
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Artistic Research through Radio - Lecture by Daniela de Paulis
Daniela de Paulis introduces some of her projects combining radio technologies, neuroscience and live performance art. She discusses how her practice expanded from contemporary dance to outer space by working in collaboration with radio astronomers at state-of-the-arts facilities, including the Green Bank Telescope, the Allen Telescope Array, the Medicina Radio Antenna, the SKA prototype antennas at the Mullard Radio Observatory and others. She also presents her latest project titled “A Sign in Space” for which she collaborated with the European Space Agency, using the Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft as part of a live performance art event. The talk includes the screening of the film “Mare Incognito” (winner of the Art of Neuroscience Prize 2022), the title of which hints at a journey into the obscureoceans of inner and outer space.
9:15 - 10:45 pm
ANIMAterialities - Somacoustic listening session by Siegmar Zacharias
The Somacoustic Listening Sessions were developed during the pandemic as containers for collective public grieving practices. ANIMAterialities emerged in resonance to the Atchafalaya Swamp where Siegmar found herself when the pandemic started. Sound travels through bodies of water and matter. The listening sessions are soniccontainers to experience being shaken and connected together. They are sound meditations for wondering together into a space where we do not need to be alone. They are offered as a practice for giving our bodies as resonance spaces for each other to be in the wild spaces of grief and of connection through sound.
We acknowledge the many griefs we are experiencing right now—personal losses, climate grief, social and human injustices- and invite you to hold space for yourself and each other in pain and grief.
We invite you to plug into the transformative power of collective
grieving, collective listening, collective regeneration.
Come as you are. All grieves and all bodies are welcome.
