Session 6: Journeys to the Unknown
Friday 27 February
16:00 - 18:00
Paradiso, Main Hall
‘The shadow cast by the luminous screen that we hold in our hands stretches across the planet’ says Liam Young in a conversation with writer Tim Maughan during an expedition to the vast container ports of Asia, freshly built ‘ghost cities’ of China’s Special Economic Zones, toxic lakes, refineries, and vast open-cast rare earth mines of Inner Mongolia, following in reverse the route of consumer electronics. There are many aspects of our globalised civilisation that remain out of sight. Travelling to territories that are ignored by the media is a way of beginning to consider these aspects, and of bringing into view a reality on which we depend. But how do we see? How do we perceive a landscape? What do ‘hidden’ sounds reveal? What knowledge do we gain from listening to sounds we normally cannot hear?
Jana Winderen: 'Listening without getting Answers'
Friday 27 February
16:00 - 18:00
Paradiso, Main Hall
Acidification, overfishing and humans have created imbalances in fragile underwater ecosystems. Through recording and presenting sounds we cannot hear or have access to, Winderen communicates stories and issues that are now of grave concern.
Espen Sommer Eide: 'Material Vision – Silent Reading''
Friday 27 February
16:00 - 18:00
Paradiso, Main Hall
Material Vision – Silent Reading is an artistic research project, which includes the creation of new musical instruments and a performance developed on the remote Bear Island in the Barents Sea.