Duologue between Cilia Erens and Arjuna Huis in ‘t Veld
Artist Birthe Leemeijer brings two people together at a willow tree along the river IJssel (NL). The resulting conversation is part of the art project “Ontmoetingen bij de wilg/ encounters at a willow tree”, which the artist developed at the invitation of the IJsselbiennale Foundation and the Kunstenlab in Deventer. Listen here.. (in Dutch)
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For the Triennial in 2019, curator Sun A Moon of APAP 6 (“Anyang Public Art Project 6”) invited an (inter)national group of 47 artists on the theme of “Symbiotic City”. Studio Daan Roosegaarde (NL) opened the exhibition with the “Smog Free Project” in the centre of Anyang. I was asked to make a site-specific sound walk.
“Vertical awareness” started from the Anyang Art Center and ended in the Anyang Art Park at the top of “the Observatory”, designed by MVRDV during the first Triennial in 2005.
The headphone-walk creates a sound horizon of Anyang, a city in transition, in its attempt to form a symbiosis between city noise and the surrounding nature.
With support from The Dutch Embassy/ DutchCultureKorea
Photo’s: Sun A Moon, Courtesy of the curator
For more information: APAP 6
Curator and writer Arkadiusz Póltorak (PL) is contributing to RE:SOUND, the 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Arts 2019 – Aalborg, Denmark with:
“A schizoanalytical perspective on Cilia Erens’ sound works and binaural recording” (publication December 2019).
His paper session is part of the theme ‘Locating the Real’; session chair Rahma Khazam.
Abstract:
Since early 1980s, the Dutch artist Cilia Erens has carried out experiments with binaural recording in close collaboration with sound engineers. This gives a media-archeological edge to the oeuvre of an artist revered for her minimalist approach to sound editing. According to the media theorist Friedrich Kittler,
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August 2019 I was invited by APAP6 for a binaural sound research in Anyang, satellite city of Seoul, South Korea. ‘Symbiotic City’ will this year be the theme of APAP6, (Anyang Public Art Project). The exhibition will take place from October 17th – December 15th 2019. More information will follow soon.
A small research team consisting of Prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen, professor of Auditory Culture at Leiden University, dr. Irene van Kamp (RIVM) and me, worked from May to September on a report on the options for acoustically redesigning the Garenmarkt.…
→Contribution to the 5.1 soundscape project ‘Dock / Ancien Palais de Justice‘ in Les Brasseurs art contemporain, Liège (BE).
→There is nothing to tell me
“In the warm air the swallows swirl again, high up I think a see a lark ascending….There is nothing to tell me there’s a war on”.
A line from the book of the Belgian writer Stefan Hertmans about WW1 made me connect my sound walk with Belgian refugee camps in Gaasterland during WW1 and with asylum seeker centers in the neighborhood.
Fifteen local and (inter) national visual artists have been invited to LÛD.
The Gaasterland Art Society wants this exhibition to give an impression of the enormous diversity that exists within the world of sound art.
At the invitation of Miriam Wistreich (DK) and Arkadiusz Póltorak (PL) of the Curatorial Programme of De Appel I made in an inspiring collaboration the sound exhibition ‘Sonic Field Work’.
The sonic aspect of the Chinese globalization could be heard. Outside visitors could listen to the audible separation of the CIAM city functions (dwelling, working, recreation, and transportation) in garden city Amsterdam Nieuw-West, constructed by urban designer Cornelis van Eesteren. A small library was installed with publications about city planning, architecture, sound art and their relations in between.
‘Sonic Field Walk Lely’ took place in the monumental stairwell of Broedplaats Lely, built by architect J. B. Ingwersen.
How can I design a loudspeaker setup in an exhibition space where the speakers enter into a dialogue with each other, and within which the visitor chooses his/her own route through the sound universe?
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My contribution to The Great Dutch Art Calendar of Tichris Publishers for 2018 is a photograph and an observation during my sound research into the globalization of urban China 1986 – 2015. Titled – ‘Time Lapse China’. In a max of 60 words I talk about traces of humanization of urban sound in China.
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