Whale Refractions is a research project currently underway at the Centre for Advanced Study inherit based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Questions of addressing ‘heritage at large’ grew out of previous itterations of the Terra Ignota platform while observing oscillatory interrelations between humans and marine mammals and evolutions of cetacean underwater hearing in the historical and geological and climate contexts of the Magallanes Region.
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Radiales
Terra Ignota 2025
21.1. – 7.2.2025, Navarino Island, Patagonia, Chile
Radiales is the name of the new project by Terra Ignota, extending the geological research “Intercultural Contact Zone” conducted between 2017 and 2024 in Yendegaia National Park. This project continues the transdisciplinary study as a way to understand this territory and its different forms of interpretation.
The study area focuses on the geological continuity of Yendegaia Bay, specifically the Murray Channel. This maritime passage is located latitudinally between Hoste Island and Navarino Island, and longitudinally between the Beagle Channel and Nassau Bay at Cape Horn, at coordinates 55°00’00.0?S 68°19’49.7?W. As a base camp, we will use the former navy radio station located in Bahía Wulaia.
Contact Zones
Terra Ignota Forum 2024
Facultades de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
After collaborations with institutions such as the Ethnological Museum Vienna (Weltmuseum Wien) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santiago (MAC), the first TIF field lab and forum in Yendegaia National Park in March 2023, the geographical mirrored experience with the field lab in Northern Germany (Rügen, September 2023) and the knowledge transfer and training programme at La Leñera Cultural Centre in Valdivia (December 2023), the different lines of activities – which include fieldwork, research, artistic production, mediation and education – now converge in the Terra Ignota Forum hosted by the Universidad de Magallanes in Punta Arenas.
SONIC ISLANDS
SONIC ISLANDS – Mirrored perceptions between Tierra del Fuego + Rügen
March and September 2023
SONIC ISLANDS focuses on the various auditory aspects of the TERRA IGNOTA project and is part of TIF 2023/24. We are interested in the meaning of sound as a semantic system and as a form of artistic articulation. Questions about origin, identity, intercultural understanding but also about perception, legibility and interaction with the environment, social processes and structures beyond visually connoted reference systems are the subject of our joint research. Listening and making audible to stimulate changes of perspective in the process of artistic research and knowledge production as well as in communicating to an audience.
sonotopia – the sonic explorers (2019 – 2021)
edited by Carsten Seiffarth and Carsten Stabenow
out at norient books!
On the occasion of the Beethoven Anniversary Year and the conclusion of “bonn hoeren”, the international exchange project “sonotopia –
the sonic explorers”, commissioned by the Beethoven Foundation Bonn, sent six young European sound artists on artistic expeditions to four cities on four continents. After one-month residencies in Tehran, Dakar and Valparaíso?/?Bonn, each coupling two of the young European sound artists with two local ones, all twelve of them came together for a joint residency and final exhibition in Bonn at the end of the project.
Els Viaene – Ways of Seeing Sound
eine poetische Untersuchung von Klang als physikalisches Phänomen
Ausstellung / Lecture-Performance von Els Viaene
Eröffnung mit Performance: 3. Februar 2023 / 20 Uhr* (ausgebucht!)
Performance: 4. Februar 2023 / 20 Uhr* (ausgebucht!)
Ausstellung: 5. – 19. Februar 2023 / 14 – 20 Uhr
Liebig 12 / Liebigstraße 12 / 10247 Berlin / www.liebig12.net
* begrenze Kapazität – kein Nacheinlass zur Performance!
“Why can’t sounds be visible? Would the feedback from ear to eye cause fatal oscillation?”
(Pauline Oliveros)
Was ist Klang? Was ist dieses Phänomen, welches wir weder sehen noch berühren können? Die belgische Künstlerin Els Viaene arbeitet seit über 15 Jahren mit dem Medium Klang – einem Material, welches sich mit Aufnahmegeräten einfangen, digital oder analog formen lässt. In ihren großen, z.T. raumgreifenden Installationen ist das Klangerlebnis Endprodukt. Nach ihrem Wahrnehmung standen aber immer Apparate, Objekte und Technologien im Vordergrund – zwischen ihr und dem Klang. Sie begann zunehmend ihre Arbeitsmethodik zu hinterfragen. Je länger sie mit Klang arbeitete, desto mehr entzog er sich ihr. Wie konnte eine erneute Annäherung gelingen, wie bekommt man ein Material zu fassen, das sich selbst nie sichtbar macht? Diese Fragen waren Ausgangspunkt für eine längeres Forschungsprojekt. Sie untersuchte Klang an seiner Quelle, näherte sich ihm als einem physikalischen Phänomen: einer Schwingung, einer Welle, einer Veränderung des Luftdrucks. Wie aber und womit lässt sich Klang formen, dass er sich als greifbares, sichtbares Medium manifestiert?
Ende des 18., Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Naturwissenschaften Klang als physikalischen Phänomen zu begreifen, experimentell zu untersuchen und abstrakt zu beschreiben. Der britische Forscher John Tyndall publiziert 1876 eine Sammlung von historischen Experimenten und Untersuchungen, die den Kenntnisstand der damaligen Zeit zusammenfasste und auf eindrucksvolle Weise illustrierte. Sein besonderes Augenmerk lag auf der Übersetzung und Sichtbarmachung des Klangs – der Vermittlung des Phänomens in sogenannten Schauexperimenten. Viele der von ihm erstmalig gesammelt vorgestellten Theorien gelten heute als Grundlage der modernen Akustik. Die Geschichte der Erforschung des Klangs innerhalb der Naturwissenschaften bildete den Ausgangspunkt für die Untersuchungen von Els Viaene. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Universitätsmuseum Gent (GUM) analysierte und rekonstruierte sie viele dieser historischen Versuchsanordnungen.
Mit dem Material, den Erfahrungen und Erkenntnissen kehrte Els Viaene in ihr Atelier zurück und entwickelte eine Reihe neuer Experimente und Versuchsanordnungen, in denen sie Klang in etwas Sichtbares verwandelt. In einer Mischung aus Ausstellung, Installation und Performance macht sie diese persönliche Forschungen einem Publikum zugänglich. Klänge hinterlassen Spuren auf Oberflächen oder schreiben Lichtfiguren in den dunklen Raum. Sie pulsieren in präzise choreografierten Wolkenformationen und irisieren an Oberflächenschichten von flüchtigen Glyzerinmembranen. Saiten und Stäbe, Pulver und Gasblasen, Spiegel und Laser lassen Klangwellen sichtbar werden. Die besondere Faszination besteht in der vollständig analogen Nachvollziehbarkeit, die aber grade im Zeitalter des Digitalen durch ihre Magie besticht. Els Viaene begibt sich zusammen mit dem Publikum auf eine Reise durch die Geschichte historischer Experimente hin zu ihren eigenen poetischen Übersetzungen und Interpretationen. Diese Ausstellung für die Liebig 12 ist eine Wunderkammer, in der Wissenschaft und Klang aufeinandertreffen und die Begriffe des Sehens und Hörens, der Wahrnehmung dessen, was wir sehen und hören, und deren gegenseitige Beeinflussung verwischen.
Konzept und Realisation: Els Viaene
Kurator: Carsten Stabenow / tunedcity.net
Technische Assistenz: Koen Daems
Video/Electronics: Elias Heuninck
Licht Design: Simon Siegmann
Support: Torsten Oetken
Herzlichen Dank an Ghent University Museum und Roland Carchon, Danny Van de Steene, Dirk Eeckhaut
sowie Allegra Solitude / Liebig12.
Ways of Seeing Sound @ Liebig 12 wurde gefördert durch initiative neue musik berlin e.V. und Flanders State of the Art.
(Abbildungen: Els Viaene, John Tyndall (Illustration aus „Sound, a course of eight lectures“, 1876) Kobie Nel/Lydgalleriet (Ballon)
Die erste Version dieser Ausstellung wurde 2021 in der Lydgalleriet, Bergen/Norwegen gezeigt.
Els Viaene – Ways of Seeing Sound
“Why can’t sounds be visible?
Would the feedback from ear to eye cause fatal oscillation?”
(Pauline Oliveros)
What is sound? What is this phenomenon that we can neither see nor touch, but can touch us?
The Belgian artist Els Viaene has been working for over 15 years with the medium of sound in large scale installations and compositions – the sound experience was always the end product. According to her perception, however, apparatuses, objects and technologies have always stood in the foreground – between her and the sound.
In Ways of seeing sound, she investigated sound at it’s source, approaching it as a physical phenomenon in the moment it is shaped: as vibration, wave, change in air pressure. She analyzed the opto-acoustic experiments collected by John Tyndall around 1876* and reconstructed in collaboration with the Ghent University Museum (GUM) many of the historical setups. Based on that, she developed a series of new experiments and methods to make sound visible and takes us on a journey of perception.
The exhibition for Liebig 12 is a Wunderkammer in which science and sound collide and the concepts of seeing and hearing blur.
TERRA IGNOTA at Weltmuseum within the framework of the TAKING CARE project
Terra Ignota was invited to participate in residence at Weltmuseum within the framework of the TAKING CARE project, a research carried out between September 20 and November 10. October 2023 Planning to show their results in the “Extinction!?” exhibition that will take place in the Weltmuseum between February 2023 and January 2024. Fernanda Olivares, from the Selk’nam Covadonga Ona Community in Chile, and Nicolás Spencer, artist, participated in the program in collaboration with Claudia Augustat, curator of the South American collection at the Weltmuseum.
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Expeditions in Specific Territory Rostock-Montevideo
In the old secondary ports of Montevideo and Rostock, a paradigmatic characteristic manifests itself: the morphologies of these beautiful centuries-old cities with discreet, elegant architecture and steeped in history; new global ports are assembled on their edges in the Warnow and De La Plata rivers, mechanical monsters standardized by world freight traffic come in scene. This radical encounter between the global and the local appears materialized as a collision. Territorial issue that gives physical clues to the contradictions we inhabit as a new post-industrial and hyper-mercantile era. In 2021 we will place ourselves – understanding post-pandemic care as the new skin of the body – on the uncertain edges.
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CAUS – Content Analysis of Urban Sound, Gdansk
The project was part of Radio Total. Festival of Visual Arts On Air, 4 – 12 September, 2021 in Gdansk, Poland and on air at 91,3 UKF.
The project CAUS is focused on the analysis of urban sound, regarding the information it contains about the city’s identity in past, present and future as well as in the social, environmental and global context. The analysis is carried out by a group of experts who will conduct investigations, theoretical and practical research and experiments.
Artists: Marcin Dymiter PL, Lukasz Pancewicz PL, Julie Myers UK/DE, Carsten Stabenow DE, Krzysztof Topolski PL, Franziska Windisch DE/BE
Curator: Florian Tuercke DE/PL
Some of the observations are documented here >>>
sonic aggregator + sonic placemaking
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of Sonic Aggregator, a collaborative project of Soundtrackcity and Tuned City about sonic placemaking hosted by ABA Air Berlin Alexanderplatz at Haus der Statistik in Berlin – Friday, September 17 – 7pm.
Sonic Aggregator has been long in the making and postponed several times due to covid measures, but finally this project is about to happen! We look forward to meet you at the official opening on 17 September or during one of the events in the week thereafter. Have a look at the programme and make reservations!
Terra Ignota – Research Trip III
Almost 100 years ago the artist and explorer Rockwell Kent crossed the Baldivia Chain between Seno Almirantazgo and the Beagle Channel via the Lapataia Valley. His documentation* of the landscape and climate is one of the first descriptions of this passage and serves as an important historic reference. Especially interesting in our context is his perspective as an artist becoming an explorer – sensing, registering, translating and documenting in an unconventional way.
Terra Ignota
We are working on a new long term artistic research and residency project in the southernmost inhabited region of the planet – Chilean Antarctica, Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego and Última Esperanza.
More info: http://terra-ignota.net
sonic explorers
6 junge Klangkünstler werden zu Projekt- und Forschungsresidenzen nach Valparaiso/Chile, Dakar/Senegal und Teheran/Iran reisen, um dort gemeinsam mit zwei jungen Künstlern des jeweiligen Landes zu arbeiten. Dabei werden sie von lokalen Mentoren und Partnerorganisationen betreut. Im Fokus des Projektes steht daher die künstlerische Untersuchung lokal unterschiedlicher urbaner Phänomene aus klanglicher Perspektive, deren Interpretation und Transformation mit verschiedensten künstlerischen Mitteln.
Pankow soundwalks
Peter Cusack, Udo Noll, Martyna Poznanska, katrinem and Sam Auinger have created 5 different soundwalks in the Berlin district of Pankow to take place in April, May and June 2019. You are invited to join the artists on the walks and explore Pankow’s unique sonic worlds. What is heard will be discussed en route and afterwards. Some walks are intended for small groups so will be repeated on several occasions.
sonotopia – the sonic explorers
A residency project in Valparaiso/Chile, Dakar/Senegal, Tehran/Iran and Bonn/Germany by bonn hoeren in the frame of Beethoven’s 250th birthday year
To open up the world for one’s self or to open up one’s self to the world – both processes commence with listening. Our perception of the world “out there” begins with listening, long before we are born. The act of listening is the foundation for every type of communication and social interaction. Both of the latter have to be learned.
In stereophony, as natural a reproduction of reality as possible is created through the spatial shifting of two sound sources. sonotopia – the sonic explorers interprets this shift in perspective metaphorically.
6 young sound artist (former sonotopia prize winners) will undertake a project and research residency in one of the partner cities in 2019. In each city two local artist and a local mentor will join. In 2020 all groups will come together in Bonn, mirroring the process and work towards a final exhibition.
More info soon – stay tuned!
Connecting Resonances I: Beirut
Sound, listening and sonic practices across sites, borders and cultures
Workshop and Seminar at the American University of Beirut, in collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen (Bergen Academy of Art and Design), Norway; Tuned City, Berlin; Neighborhood Initiatives (AUB); and The Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH).
Space, Sound and the Improvisatory
presenting Tuned City Messene at this conference at the OCC in Athens, 19-21 Oct. 2018
Program info: http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2172/
TC Messene – program book
You can see the program book here >>>
