BODIES AS EARS
Speculations in Acoustosomatics
Martin Sonderkamp >> Hara Alonso
>> Jenny Sunesson
OPEN LAB
SKH RESEARCH WEEK
2024
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.
SUNESSON/PERSSON
- an improvisation between a sound practice and an animation practice
(2020)
BODIES AS EARS
speculations in acoustosomatics
Martin Sonderkamp/Hara Alonso/Jenny Sunesson
OPEN LAB SKH RESEARCH WEEK 2024
FRAGMENTURGY
fragmenturgy >>> fragmedialities
IS...
... a societal and social listening model that may be explored by inhabitants of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to re-familiarise with each other and the place where they exist through the exploration of sound.
The model has been under continous development by Jenny Sunesson since 2016 and will continue to be so.
SUNESSON/PERSSON
RETURN OF THE SILURIANS
- an improvisation between a sound practice and an animation practice (2020)
BODIES AS EARS
speculations in acoustosomatics
>>> Martin Sonderkamp >>> Jenny Sunesson
FRAGMENTURGY FIELD WORK ÖRBYHUS, March 2022
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.
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.
FRAGMENTURGY
listening & social interaction
2020
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NO_SPACE
SOUND THE LIMINAL SPACE
site-specific performance
2018
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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
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FRAGMENTURGY
public performance
2019
The King's Forest, Örbyhus
Tierp Municipality, Sweden
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community project
2018-2019
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FACT stage one
participatory sound project
2021
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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.