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.…
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For a survey of scientist Jeroen de Vos about ‘spectrality’ I contributed three binaural recordings.
Publication of his article including recordings in Leonardo, an academic journal published by MIT Press (Volume 26 2016).
Abstract:
If space can be perceived through sound, then recording and playback techniques allow capturing a unique spatial moment for later retrieval. The notion of spectrality as the invisible visible can be used to explain the embodiment of an auditive momentum in a space that is ultimately absent.
I just received a ‘Development Budget’ by the AFK to do research on how to develop an exhibition-context for ‘Time Lapse China’ (a binaural sound research on the globalization of urban China 1986-2015).
For me is this research a first: a development from headphone- to loudspeaker-presentations.
Relax tonight during the Rotterdam Museum Night in a 3D soundscape played through ‘sound arms’ designed for The Rotterdam Eye Hospital. My work (part of the art collection of the hospital) was put into service in 2008 in order to…
→A Go Lunch Lecture and workshop for students of the Royal Academy The Hague, the Royal Conservatoire and Art Science, participating in IST LAB: SOUNDSCAPE.
Results can be seen and listened to Januari 20, 21 during an Expo in the KABK Gallery.
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‘Transmitting an experience’ is one of the 5 modules of 
