Taina Riikonen | University of Helsinki, FI
Day 2, 9 November, De Bijloke Rotonde, 9:30–10:30
Silent Buzz of the Schizzes: The Research Unit as a Sonic Desiring-Machine (2015) is a sound installation that explores sonic registers, flows, codes, and interruptions of silent sounds in the realm of academic research and the hallways of Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies. At the current time of crisis for universities (considering funding, etc.), the increasing demand for spectacular, efficient, and pretentious performances has entered researchers’ rooms. This sound installation investigates the potential counter-power to this demand in terms of the Deleuze-Guattarian concept of the “desiring-machine.” Both the recorded sounds and the treatment of them aim to embody the idea of a research collective as a particular system of interruptions.