Cilia Erens - Sound is Space

실리아 에렌스 – 수직적 의식 ‘Vertical Awareness’ South Korea

31/10/2019

The every 3 years returning APAP 6 (‘Anyang Public Art Project’) invited me to contribute with a site-specific sound installation in Anyang Art Park (South Korea). ‘Symbiotic City’ was the underlying theme. A series of (inter)national artists were invited by curator Sun A Moon, among which the Dutch Daan Roosegaarde and Katja Novitskova (based in Germany/ The Netherlands).

The routing of my installation is starting in Anyang Pavilion and is ending in Anyang Art Park on top of The Peak, an observatory designed by the Rotterdam MVRDV in 2005.
Vertical awareness creates a sound horizon of Anyang, a city in transition in its attempt to form a symbiosis between urban noise and the surrounding nature.

Everyday at 16:00 (except on Monday).
Headphones are available.

For more information: APAP 6
With support from The Dutch Embassy/ DutchCultureKorea
Photo 1: Sun A Moon, Courtesy of the curator

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Sonic Schizorealism, lecture about my work during RE:SOUND (DK)

23/08/2019

Lectures, Press, Publications

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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Symbiotic city, sound research in South Korea

13/08/2019

Press, Projects

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.

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How does sound the Garenmarkt?

15/04/2019

Press, Publications

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.…

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Time Killing

12/01/2019

Projects

Contribution to the 5.1 soundscape project ‘Dock / Ancien Palais de Justice‘ in Les Brasseurs art contemporain, Liège (BE).

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LÛD Sound Art in Rijsterbos August 15 – October 15

13/08/2018

Projects

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.

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Sonic Field Work&Walk in De Appel CP ‘Brace for Impact’

31/05/2018

Projects, Workshops/Guest Lectures

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.

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The Binaural Omniwave Experiment

15/03/2018

Blog, Projects

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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The Great Dutch Art Calendar NL18

08/01/2018

Publications

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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VIDEO IMPRESSION of TIME LAPSE CHINA (1986-2015)

19/11/2017

Projects

http://www.bubbleeyes.nl

Visitors (including a variety of students from different Art Institutes) were walking or sitting in a sound-field, evoked by two ‘virtual’ speakers, mixed with mono sounds of several mini- speakers.

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