[Re] Mapping of Being - Landscape/Cavescape/Humanscape
(Re) Mapping of Being originates in a place-memory from the Second World War hidden under many layers of earth. It is part of Dunke-Dunk Artistic Research, an interdisciplinary project in which artists use a continual field approach to (re)read the history of the inhabitants of Sørøya in northern Norway, who went into hiding in the caves of the region in the winter of 1944/45.
PARABOL is a collaboration with Kunsthall 3.14, where Lydgalleriet selects a sound work for the parabolic loudspeaker sited in Kunsthall 3.14's entrance hall. PARABOL has a particular focus on sonic commissions and edits and offers a mode of address corresponding with the exhibitions in the main upstairs spaces. Touching the Reflection by IIA KO is curated by Emilie Wright and Julie Lillelien Porter in relation to the exhibition Fallow Land by Patrick Huse.
The Chanting of Deaf Water' draws a line under the deafness of the Ayoro River, of which there are now only traces of memories about the water stream that once surrounded us. The spaces of landscape memory that once were alive are resurged by the sound recordings of the Ayoro River flow, that circulate within the glass objects and through our bodies. Such a metaphor of deafness allows us to sensorialise sound through its physical and visual qualities as well as to experience the internal sensors of our own body, where sound is generated through our anatomical structures. This sound takes physical form within us and we can embody it to preserve the archives of our environment. Internal vibrations allow us to become a choir by chanting a memory of the deafness of the Ayoro River and broadcasting this sound into the environment while retaining the landscape memory.
