Abstract
Landscaping
In our current predicament in which we seek new relations to the world around us, the concept of landscape begs for new meanings. Where landscape historically has been thought of as a picturesque vista or passive backdrop for human protagonists, contemporary artists and theorists conceptualize landscape not so much as a noun but as a verb, a continuous flux of becoming in which both human and more-than-human agencies are entangled in a polyphony of ‘world making’, i.e. landscaping.
Listening as research
The artistic research project Polyphonic Landscapes explores how sound and the act of listening can contribute to a more active understanding of landscapes. How can our sense of hearing foster a more embodied, inclusive, relational, and reciprocal connectivity to our environment, in which different life forms, materials, energy flows and temporalities are involved?
Researchers and location
Four sound artists have been invited to explore these questions over the course of one year: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IN/NL), Yolande Harris (UK/US), Teemu Lehmusruusu (FI) and Lia Mazzari (IT/UK). During residencies in and around the Amstelpark, the artists are working on new sound works that facilitate embodied and situated ways of knowing and experiencing landscape. The progression of their investigations will be shared during three public research seminars, a publication and an exhibition at Zone2Source.
The information on artistic outputs in the Aalto Research Portal follows the reporting guidelines of Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture.Therefore, each contribution requiring independent artistic activity isreported separately. For full details of the work and its contributors, pleaserefer to information provided by the publisher.
In our current predicament in which we seek new relations to the world around us, the concept of landscape begs for new meanings. Where landscape historically has been thought of as a picturesque vista or passive backdrop for human protagonists, contemporary artists and theorists conceptualize landscape not so much as a noun but as a verb, a continuous flux of becoming in which both human and more-than-human agencies are entangled in a polyphony of ‘world making’, i.e. landscaping.
Listening as research
The artistic research project Polyphonic Landscapes explores how sound and the act of listening can contribute to a more active understanding of landscapes. How can our sense of hearing foster a more embodied, inclusive, relational, and reciprocal connectivity to our environment, in which different life forms, materials, energy flows and temporalities are involved?
Researchers and location
Four sound artists have been invited to explore these questions over the course of one year: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IN/NL), Yolande Harris (UK/US), Teemu Lehmusruusu (FI) and Lia Mazzari (IT/UK). During residencies in and around the Amstelpark, the artists are working on new sound works that facilitate embodied and situated ways of knowing and experiencing landscape. The progression of their investigations will be shared during three public research seminars, a publication and an exhibition at Zone2Source.
The information on artistic outputs in the Aalto Research Portal follows the reporting guidelines of Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture.Therefore, each contribution requiring independent artistic activity isreported separately. For full details of the work and its contributors, pleaserefer to information provided by the publisher.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Amsterdam |
| Publisher | Zone2Source |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Oct 2023 |
| MoE publication type | F2 Partial implementation of a work of art or performance |
| Event | Polyphonic Landscapes - zone2source, Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 6 Oct 2023 → 3 Dec 2023 https://zone2source.net/en/tentoonstelling/polyphonic-landscapes-2/ |
Field of art
- Contemporary art