Artist Jana Winderen uses sound recording to reveal the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world. Her practice pays particular attention to audio environments and to creatures which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally – deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear.
This audio and visual presentation will present materials gathered by Winderen on two field trips. In Thailand, Winderen worked alongside members of fishing communities who listen for underwater life by placing their heads against an oar or the bottom of their boats. In the Baltic Sea, she explored ‘deadzones’: areas suffering from lack of oxygen due to the proliferation of phytoplankton. Winderen invites discussion around these projects and the key questions they raise. Among them: why it is important to visit and work in these places? How can sound warn us about anthropogenic pollution? What surprises and questions arise from close, careful listening? And what are challenges and possibilities arise when an artist chooses sound as their medium?
This event will take place online in English and is free to join. It is part of a series addressing issues relating to sound and ecology. It takes place alongside PRAKSIS’s seventeenth residency, Climata - Capturing change at a time of ecological crisis. Climata has been developed with sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek and Goethe-Institut Norwegen. It includes collaborations with Norsk Teknisk museum, Gruenrekorder, and Notam. It is also part of the programme of the klima2+ exhibition at Teknisk museum. klima2+ addresses climate change by bringing together scientific perspectives, insights from the critical humanities and art, as well as inviting action through art interventions, practical workshops and activism.
This event will be held online via the Zoom communications platform from 11.00am Oslo Local Time. It will be recorded. Recording will focus on the speaker, but if you prefer not to be recorded you are welcome to join with your camera and microphone off.
About Jana Winderen
Jana Winderen currently lives and works in Norway. She originally studied mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology at the University of Oslo, and then, seeking a greater freedom to ask questions and present her ideas, undertook a degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London. A maker of site-specific and spatial audio installations and concerts, her work has been exhibited and performed internationally in major institutions and public spaces. Recent works include The Art of Listening: Underwater for Audemars Piguet at Art Basel, Miami, Rising Tide at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Listening with Carp for Now is the Time in Wuzhen, Through the Bones for the Thailand Art Biennale in Krabi, bára for TBA21_Academy, Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone for Sonic Acts and Ultrafield for MoMA, New York. In 2011 she won the Golden Nica for Digital Musics & Sound Art at Ars Electronica. Her audio-visual work is represented by Touch (UK).
More information at:
www.janawinderen.com
https://janawinderen.bandcamp.com/
https://touch33.net/artists/jana-winderen
Photo: Palin Ansusinha
