Hexa-Hive
(2020)
author(s): Christina Stadlbauer
published in: Research Catalogue
The Hexa-Hive is a hive for bees and humans in urban locations. It serves as hive and as city furniture and invites the visitor to experience the bees from close
Melliferopolis – collaborating with uncontrollable, flying, stinging insects
(2020)
author(s): Christina Stadlbauer
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition explores encounters between humans and insects, in the framework of a long term project around honeybees in urban contexts called Melliferopolis. The interventions proposed by Melliferopolis create shared spaces of encounters for Bees and Humans. The choice to work with these insects in an urban and participatory setting creates situations that are surprising, unpredictable or challenge concepts of "safety". The exposition aims to develop an understanding for risks that arise when collaborating with non human animals, explores reactions to situations that are not entirely controllable and elaborates on notions of safety, hazard and unpredictability within practice based artistic research. As the territory to investigate these questions we look at interventions, performances and installations produced in public spaces in the city of Helsinki in the framework of Melliferopolis since 2012.
Urban sonic acupuncture: sonic strategies for the city space
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Josué Moreno Prieto
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This thesis accompanies the artistic projects I have implemented during my doctoral research as a reflection and summary. My practice ranges from traditional music composition to other forms of music-making, such as electroacoustic music, live electronics, generative art, and sound installations.
Urban Sonic Acupuncture is an artistic practice that intervenes in public, urban spaces with sound composition elements that aim to alter the atmosphere of a place through subtle, almost imperceptible resonances, textures, and other forms of sonic infiltration. The practice consists of applying sonic pressure points on sites that affect the aural awareness and attention thresholds of the listeners. Interestingly, the altered attention thresholds remain effective even after they left the site where the acoustic intervention happens.
Aural Weather exists without the need for an acoustic intervention, as a pre-existing acoustic atmosphere, upon which the urban sonic acupuncture practitioner acts. We can also understand Aural Weather as an organising principle: placing sounds in space rather than time. This principle promotes a listening mindset where the audience takes responsibility for the temporal narrative. The development and implementation of my the different Urban Sonic Acupuncture art-works build on this crucial concept.
Between 2016 and 2021, four artistic projects and several parallel test cases were carried out to explore these notions, illuminating aspects of public and urban spaces through sonic interventions. The first project was an indoor public space sound installation in a winter
garden, the second one took the form of a museum concert promenade and resonance installation, the third project was an outdoor installation inside an underpass tunnel, and the fourth project presented a sonic perception exercise as a radio programme.
Within the processes of making these works, I found that the best results often arose from invisible, non-object-based interventions. Combined with ‘lowercase’ ambiguous sounds that blend with the environment, this approach helped me to achieve non-disruptive ways of infiltrating daily urban life and influencing site perception.
The projects sparked conversations among the general public, passers-by, and the local art scene. This non-disruptive approach to sonic public-space interventions has shown to be effective for infiltrating daily life. Aware of the existing aural weather, the transient audience is invited to a conscious urban sonic dwelling.
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