JENNY SUNESSON

FRAGMENTURGY ACTIONS

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. 




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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Participatory performance with Bachelor in Film and Media, Stockholm university of the Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

 

 

 

NO_SPACE:

SOUND THE LIMINAL SPACE

site-specific performance

2018

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Prästmon, Västernorrland, Sweden

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

public performance

2019

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Participatory event

The King's Forest, Örbyhus

Tierp Municipality, Sweden

 MITT ÖRBYHUS

community project

2018-2019

 

 

FACT stage one

participatory sound project

2021

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Uppsala Independent College, Uppsala, Sweden

 

 

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.