BODIES AS EARS
Speculations in Acoustosomatics
2024
Open Lab at SKH Research week, 2024.
With Martin Sonderkamp, Hara Alonso and Jenny Sunesson.
BODIES AS EARS – Speculations in Acoustosomatics is a collaborative research project hosted by Martin Sonderkamp, professor in Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts, and the researchers Jenny Sunesson, Hara Alonso, Ulrika Berg and Jennifer Lacey, since 2021.
The project investigates practices of listening to sound, place, body, memory, and imagination and its potential to serve as a performative site for sonic, kinetic, and proprioceptive immersion. It explores the artistic possibilities of creating co-authored listening-based performance situations by means of a transdisciplinary artistic research practice between dance and sound artists, choreographers, and composers.
The project critiques the hierarchization of auditory and visual senses as dominant aesthetic senses in the reception of Western art and the binary between them.
BODIES AS EARS
speculations in acoustosomatics
Martin Sonderkamp/Hara Alonso/Jenny Sunesson
OPEN LAB SKH RESEARCH WEEK 2024
SUNESSON/PERSSON
Return of the Silurians
An improvisation between a sound practice, and an animation practice, limestone and granite.
Residency at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, 2020.
BODIES AS EARS
Speculations in acoustosomatics
Martin Sonderkamp, Jenny Sunesson
FRAGMENTURGY FIELD WORK ÖRBYHUS, March 2022
Return of the silurians – an improvisation between sound practice & visual practice
Lina Persson, Artist & Researcher in film
Jenny Sunesson, Artist & Assistant Professor of Sonic Practice
What are you investigating and why?
Return of the Silurians stages four different phases of resurgence, re-animation.
From dead petrified fossils to soft clay imprints, to animated clay. It investigates the Silurian coral reef organisms as humanity’s ancestors and potential future descendants. During a five hour long improvisation Persson and Sunesson experiments within this storyworld and by analysing layers of sediment and layers of sound they will together continue to build and expand it. Exposition in RC.
What will we experience during your presentation?
A five hour improvisation between two research practices; sound/fragmenturgy and image/re-animation. In a dark room Persson and Sunesson will gradually create a storyworld from sound and moving images through a dialogical dj:ing/vj:ing. Visitors can come and go, spend some time with the process anytime during these five hours.
SUNESSON/PERSSON
Return of the Silurians
2020
An improvisation between a sound practice, and an animation practice, limestone and granite,
Research week, Stockholm University of the Arts, 2020.
Invitation
The researchers will invite the audience to explore a series of body, listening, and sound practices mediated by various scores and proposals developed as part of the research project Bodies as Ears - Speculations in Acoustosomatics. Visitors are welcome to visit the open studio workshop anytime during the opening hours. They will experience a space conceived as an experimental art laboratory in which proposed activities will alternate according to the schedule below. The researchers will support and guide your participation with instructions and tasks based on scores.
FRAGMENTURGY
>>> fragmedialities
IS...
... a societal and social listening model including rituals that may be explored by human and more-than-human inhabitants to re-connect with each other and place through the exploration of listening-with and listening-through.
The model has been under continous development by Jenny Sunesson since 2016 and will continue to be so.
NO_SPACE
SOUND THE LIMINAL SPACE
site-specific performance
2018
The Lost and Found project (Jenny Sunesson aka LOF) is a collaborator within the sound collective NO_SPACE consisting of LOF, Isabelle Gustafsson-Ny, Olle Talling, Jeanette Järvenpää, Deniz Soyarslan.
FRAGMENTURGY TEACHING
listening & social interaction
2020
FRAGMENTURGY
public performance
2019
The King's Forest, Örbyhus
Tierp Municipality, Sweden
Hosted by Konstfrämjandet and ÖTV, Utveckla Örbyhus, Tobo, Vendel.
The Listening Tent (60 min)
In this exercise, you are invited to deeply explore the sonic materialities of various found object-bodies.
You are encouraged to freely interact and listen-with the objects and humans present in the acoustic space of The Listening tent.
Please listen carefully to engage.
Feel free to move around.