Around the world, transdisciplinary groups of artists, scientists and activists in collaboration with their local communities, are listening to our imperiled planet’s messages around potential collapse — or hope for rehabilitation. In 2021, SONIC MATTER_openlab has shared the work of research groups in North and South America via an interactive global map that highlights the relationship between humans and our non-human kin. Including audio, video, text and other creative platforms, their research implores us to witness what may disappear forever, as well as build, with great urgency, new networks of caregiving for the earth. Each of these groups contribute to raising awareness about the emerging and ever-shifting challenges of our planet and humanity, informing more sustainable solutions, and cultivating a deeper spirituality.
At Gessnerallee, SONIC MATTER_openlab proposes a unique setting in resonance in of these fragments and topics. The performance will offer visitors the opportunity to discover the work and get in touch with SONIC MATTER_openlab’s researchers and to experience in a communal way the connecting potential of The Witness.
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Around the world, transdisciplinary groups of artists, scientists and activists in collaboration with their local communities, are listening to our imperiled planet’s messages around potential collapse — or hope for rehabilitation. In 2021, SONIC MATTER_openlab has shared the work of research groups in North and South America via an interactive global map that highlights the relationship between humans and our non-human kin. Including audio, video, text and other creative platforms, their research implores us to witness what may disappear forever, as well as build, with great urgency, new networks of caregiving for the earth. Each of these groups contribute to raising awareness about the emerging and ever-shifting challenges of our planet and humanity, informing more sustainable solutions, and cultivating a deeper spirituality.
At Gessnerallee, SONIC MATTER_openlab proposes a unique setting in resonance in of these fragments and topics. The performance will offer visitors the opportunity to discover the work and get in touch with SONIC MATTER_openlab’s researchers and to experience in a communal way the connecting potential of The Witness.
Discover SONIC MATTER_openlab interactive map.
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Researchers & Communities | Sonandes & Guely Moratò and Víctor Mazón Gardoqui (Bolivia), Sapara Nation of Amazonian Ecuador & Fabiano Kueva and Eduardo Kohn (Canada & Ecuador), Deep listening community & Claire Chase (USA / East coast), Communities living in partially burned forests & Caroline Miller (USA / West coast), matralab & Sandeep Bhagwati (Canada), Central Amazonia Group & Marcus Maeder (Brazil & Switzerland) |
Openlab curation, event introduction, deep listening experiment | Julie Beauvais |
Installation conception and Coordination | Manon Fantini |
Production | SONIC MATTER, Platform for experimental music |
Co-production | Alarm will sound, AmazonFace, Labverde, matralab, Ministry of Maåt, Novas Frequências Festival, SAMPle Laptop Ensemble, Sonandes |
Supporters | Swiss Arts Council, Pro HelvetiaSüdKulturFonds |
Partner | ZHdK - Zurich University of the Arts |
Support for researchers | Concordia University Montréal, Embassy of Switzerland in Bolivia, Embassy of Switzerland in Ecuador, Círculo Cultural de Suiza en Ecuador, Harvard University, Horning Tree Seed Orchard, McGill University, Portland State University, Prince Claus Fund, Swissnex Brazil |
Special thanks | The Witness _Pauline Oliveros (1989) © 2013 Anthology of Text Scores Deep Listening Publications All Rights Reserved Permissions from: The Pauline Oliveros Trust |
Venue partner | Gessnerallee |