LISTENING-WITH, LISTENING-THROUGH

heritage, culture and the politics of a museum

10:55–12:00 LISTENING-WITH, LISTENING-THROUGH THE MUSEUM

PART 1. & 2.

Aim

To explore the heritage of the museum by listening-with-and through its artefacts through an interplay with found objects belonging to the site.

Each of us will explore the museum by sounding fragments that we will collectively transmit back to the museum through a re-sounding live together.

PART 1: 10:55–11:30 Walk-of-two-perspectives – shifting between horizontal view and soil view

Place: The Polar Museum

PART 1: Instruction

• Examine the museum by listening and walking slowly, shifting between the two listening perspectives that you already practiced: Slow walk (horizontal view), and Soil walk (soil view).

• Bring your found objects (2 x rocks + found object) with you while walking, they will guide you!

PART 2: 11:30–12:00 Listening-with, listening-through an Artefact

PART 2: Instruction

• Find an artefact, a display, or a space in the museum, that you are drawn to.

• Sit down next to it. Display your found objects close-by.

• Listen! What can you hear when you listen-with? What can you see when you listen-through the objects?

• What does a conversation or an interplay between the museum artefact, your found objects, and you, sound like?

• Document by recording (sounding, voicing, ambiences, bodies, hands) and/or writing with your mobile phone.

12:00-13:00 LUNCH

13:00–13:30 Preparation before sharing

Place: The Administrative building