Image as Site by ellenj

Devices that produce images, such as cameras and microphones, invite their users to engage with the world by enabling a network of relationships. By appropriating the concept of field from certain discourses of sound art and applying it to the moving image, visual artist Ellen Røed explores, in a series of collaborations, how camera based field recordings might operate across experience, mediation and representation. By considering the moving image as a form of site in itself, the activities of the project consider how moving images can manifest as a form of place on its own terms rather than as a mode of representing reality. The project builds on the capacity of video based art for enabling movement, transience, and body, in other words elements of performance characteristic to site. Image as Site is an artistic research project at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), funded by The Swedish Research Council and SKH.

Västmanland, Öjesjöbrännan
18th-20th of October 2019

Ashley Briggs
Ellen Røed

23rd October: Research seminar
Image as Site: Practices of listening and field work
at Valhallavägen 189, TV studio. 

How can listening enable place? How does practices of listening and field recording relate to place through being immersed in weather and wind? A seminar with presentations by and conversations with professor in film sound Klas Dykhof, filmmaker and phd candidate Mia Engberg, as well as sound artists and field recordists Jez French Riley and Trond Lossius. Discussions in the context of research project Image as site and profile area Art, technology and materiality.

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