This session hosted by the SAR Special Interest Group in Language-based Artistic Research (co-founded by Emma Cocker, Alexander Damianisch, Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin) takes place within the frame of the SAR Conference in Porto. 

Language-based Artistic Research describes an emergent field involving approaches to artistic research that are undertaken in and through different language-based practices. This session will introduce the activities of the SIG in Language-based Artistic Research, providing invitation to the wider community of artistic researchers to become involved. It will comprise presentations from different ‘thematic nodes’ – a termused for referring to a group of artistic researchers coming together for engaging with a specific thematic focus, resonant affinity, or a matter of urgency relating to language-based artistic research. Contributions to the programme (in-person and through online content) address diverse language-based issues and questions including – the ethics and politics of language justice as a framework and set of practices for equitable, authentic communication; the relation of languaging and bodying, as well as between voicing and listening, alongside the asemic and ‘eco-asemic’ materiality of language.

RECORDED CONTRIBUTIONS

* In the beckonings of errant attentions – ro heinrich | Katrin Hahner | Edoardo Lomi | fabrice dubosc | Erin Manning | Muckross Lake surrounds, Ireland, Cricket wings, raven wings, underwater lava

* Notes on Neuroqueer Reading Writing Life – Anna Nygren | Elisabeth Hjorth

* Speaking aut* – Anna Nygren | Barb Macek

* withing –Delphine Chapuis Schmitz | Emma Cocker | Laressa Dickey | Sabina Holzer | Ines Marita Schärer | Litó Walkey

* Words as Matter Research Group – Mariana Renthel | Erika Tsimbrovsky | Cecilie Fang Jensen | Benjamin Jenner | Danica Maier | Antrianna Moutoula | Anouk Hoogendoorn 

* transitory writing in no-one’s land – Emma Cocker | Andrea Coyotzi Borja | Lena Séraphin

LANGUAGE-BASED ARTISTIC RESEARCH

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

@ SAR 16TH CONFERENCE 

7 MAY 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL

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LIVE PRESENTATIONS

* The Revolution Will Not Be Monolingual – Jen/Eleana Hofer | Allison Yasukawa

* Onomatopoetic Sound(e)scape: Slides and Slips between Sonances and Symbiosis – Mariella Greil | Werner Moebius | Victor Jaschke | Symbiotic Cultures of Bacteria and Yeast (SCOBY) in the frame of SHAKEN GROUNDS with Lucie Strecker | Peter Kozek | Nikolaus Gansterer

* Pine Pals – Annette Arlander

* Voice/s Voicing– Ruth Anderwald | Miriana Faieta | Bogdan Florean | Ileana Gherghina, Cristiana de Marchi | Elke Mark | Kai Ziegner 

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Onomatopoetic Sound(e)scape – Slides and Slips between Sonances and Symbiosis // Mariella Greil I Werner Moebius I Victor Jaschke I Symbiotic Cultures of Bacteria and Yeast (SCOBY) in the frame of SHAKEN GROUNDS with Lucie Strecker I Peter Kozek I Nikolaus Gansterer

We continue to explore the theme of our node Onomatopoetic Sound(e)scape. During the SAR Forum in Tilburg 2024 our focus was on Slides and Slips between Sound and Speech, and we introduced the Amaryllisation project. We continued our investigations on entangled soundwordings and also managed to expand our node from two humans, plant and audiovisual devices to a collaboration with more humans and this time a whole symbiotic community. We will therefore focus this contribution on Slides and Slips between Sonances and Symbiosis, paying tribute to the theme of the conference as well as the material agents we collaborate with.

“Kombucha mats are unique symbiotic systems where over sixty species of yeasts and bacteria cooperate [*]. A kombucha is an example of a protomulticellularity — an organism combined of multiple species each one pursuing a common goal of prolonging a life time of the collective organism.”^[1]

2024 © Videostill: Victor Jaschke / Performance: Mariella Greil, Lucie Strecker & SCOBYs in the frame of

Shaken Grounds: Seismography of Precarious Presences

BIOS: 

Mariella Greil works in the field of artistic research and dance, Senior Artist at

Angewandte Performance Laboratory & Elise-Richter-PEEK Fellow (FWF) at the

University of Applied Arts Vienna. She published the monograph Being in Contact –

Encountering a Bare Body (2021) and the anthology Bare Bodies – Thresholding

Life with de Gruyter. https://mariellagreil.net/

Werner Moebius works with sounds, beats and files in the context of audio culture, sonic and intermedia art in between conceptualisms, contemporary composition, electroacoustic improvisation, electronica and pop. His work ranges from minimalistic soundscapes to weird instrumental poppy tunes or audiovisual concepts in collaborations with artists of differing media.wernermoebius.net 

Victor Jaschke, a filmmaker, and interactor, approaches people as animals, with a provoked basic trust in our essentiality. He is still amazed by the concentrated images that enter the quiet chamber of his camera: what there is to see when looking back! A camera makes love easy. www.victorja.com 

RECORDING – ONLY for those ‘nodes’ not presenting live, please send video (MP4, MOV) or audio (MP3, WAV) [10 mins max].

Please download here:  https://we.tl/t-Bb0DW2xs9w

LIVE PRESENTATIONS

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The Revolution Will Not Be Monolingual // Jen/Eleana Hofer and Allison Yasukawa

Tra- means “across,” so how many forms of "across" can we come up with? ~ Cecilia Vicuña

We live inside translingual rhythms using their resonances and harmonics as generative strategies of political engagements, transformative pedagogies, and writings/artworks. Language’s many forms, formations, and modes serve as our material to undo the false frames of language dominance and monolingualism. Our engagements are informed by language justice: a framework and set of practices for equitable, authentic communication. We ask: How does language shape us? When might we shapeshift to embody its multiple forms of acrossness? Where are language barriers linked to imbalances of power and privilege in our classrooms, creative spaces, and the wider world? Where do we find the potential for radical unbarriering? How can we counteract colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy by transiting across, through, and under language? How do we listen, perceive, and communicate translingually to imagine other possible worlds?

RECORDED CONTRIBUTIONS

LIVE PRESENTATIONS

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