Telematic Sonic Performance at the Eart Day Art Model Telematic Festival 2022Telematic Sonic Performance at the Eart Day Art Model Telematic Festival 2022
They were invited to walk and listen to resonances with the places where they live, with themselves, and with others in distant locations. This is for me a collective and uplifting meditation. Thanks a lot to the improvisers! Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim (São Paulo- Brazil), Viv Corringham (New York, USA), Gloria Damijan (Vienna, Austria), Rachel Koenig Raven (Atlantic Beach, New York), Calvin Niles (London, UK), Dayana Rivera (Madrid, Spain), Biggi Vinkeloe (Sweden, California-US, India), Jane Wang (Boston, MA, USA).
Earth Day Art Model is developed by the artistic director Scott Deal, director of live programming Harry Chaubey, and a team from the Donald Tavel Arts and Technology Research Center, at IUPUI Department of Music and Arts Technology and Deck Media.
NowNet Arts Conference 2021. Transformation in the Distance
I presented at the NowNet Arts Conference, Transformation of Distance, which interrogated distance understood “as geographic distance and broader concepts such as physical, emotional, societal, environmental, and dimensional distance”. I presented the artistic process and the results of people experiencing the INTIMAL App in Bath, in the form of a paper called “Sonic Proximity: locating oneself and the others within “a migratory journey”. I also had the joy to improvise with NowNet Ensemble, and to improvise music telematically with the new Raspberry Pi Ensemble, together with Gloria Damijan and Jane Wang!
NowNet Arts proposes:
“What is distance? How is distance transformed in the field? How can the field address distance through diversity, equity, access, and inclusion? How can the geographic nature of network arts transform environmental relationships? Is there distance in loss on individual and collective scales that can be transformed? How can we develop artistic and technological components of these transformations in our field?”
QUIEN TE INSPIRA fue una meditación sonora que exploró el acto de respirar como experiencia colectiva vital, mediada, en espacios locales y distantes. La meditación fue guiada por artistas en residencia en Madrid, estudiantes del programa Microhabitable, y el colectivo virtual INTIMAL, quienes basadxs en diarios de respiración en su vida cotidiana, invitaron a la audiencia a respirar. Respirar y escuchar en la meditación Quién te inspira, nos ofrece oportunidades para ser y estar en el presente. Seis perspectivas de respiración emergieron de los diarios de vida cotidiana: al despetar, en silencio con otros, al hablar, expresando emociones, al caminar-correr y viajar, y al respirar con intención. Estas formas contribuyen a crear un vocabulario que puede proponer espacios para habitar sin performar; también en oportunidades para escapar de la rutina no performativa, y meditar, performar de manera consciente cuando se siente la necesidad de recordar la relacionalidad latente de nuestro respirar compartido.
La meditación fue parte de la exhibición Corazón, Pulmones, Hígado (Diciembre 1), en el Centro de Residencias Artísticas en Matadero Madrid. Fue desarrollada como parte de una Residencia Artística a la cual fui invitada por el programa Microhabitable (Campo Adentro, Matadero Madrid, Serpentine Gallery). La plataforma virtual fue apoyada por The Center for Deep Listening.
Esta actividad fue inspirada en la práctica de Deep Listening® (Pauline Oliveros), y el proyecto INTIMAL: Interfaces para Escucha Relacional.
En la elaboración de diarios participaron: Laura Osorio, Anita Ramirez, Silvia Villalba, Lucia Nikolaia, Yamile Calderón, Dayana Rivera, Ericka Florez, Elena Bajo, Carla Giachello y Yuri Tuma.
La meditación fue guiada por: Dayana Rivera y Ericka Florez, con presencia física en Madrid; Laura Osorio y Ximena Alarcón, con presencia virtual desde Holanda y el Reino Unido.
En la meditación se incluyeron contribuciones de: Elena Bajo y Carla Giachello.
Participaron: Personas de la audiencia en Madrid.
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English
WHO INSPIRES YOU was a sonic meditation that explored the act of breathing as a vital, mediated collective experience in local and distant spaces. The meditation was guided by artists in residence in Madrid, students of the Microhabitable program, and the virtual collective INTIMAL, who kept breathing diaries during three consecutive days, which led to invitations for the audience to breathe. Breathing and listening in meditation, offers us opportunities to be and be in the present. Six breathing perspectives emerged from the diaries: waking up, silently with others, speaking, expressing emotions, walking-running and traveling, and breathing with intention. These forms contribute to creating a vocabulary that can propose spaces to inhabit without performing; also in opportunities to escape from the non-performative routine, and to meditate, or to consciously perform when one feels the need to remember the latent relationship of our shared breathing.
WHO INSPIRES YOU was inspired by the practice of Deep Listening® (Pauline Oliveros), and the INTIMAL project: Interfaces for Relational Listening.
Laura Osorio, Anita Ramirez, Silvia Villalba, Lucia Nikolaia, Yamile Calderón, Dayana Rivera, Ericka Florez, Elena Bajo, Carla Giachello and Yuri Tuma participated in the creation of diaries.
The meditation was guided by: Dayana Rivera and Ericka Florez, with a physical presence in Madrid; Laura Osorio and Ximena Alarcón, with a virtual presence from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Contributions from Elena Bajo and Carla Giachello were included in the meditation.
This is an online version of the Long Distance Improvisation (telematic sonic performance) that took place on May 7, 2019, between nine Colombian and Latin American migrant women residing in the cities of Oslo – Barcelona – London. After a year of sharing dreams and listening to their migrations they expressed their Migratory Journeys, and also they responded to oral memory from Colombian Women in Diaspora who they don’t know. Their breathing movement was sonified and amplified in real time in the three cities, as a form of having their embodied presence. This was a shared dream.
Esta es una versión en línea de la improvisación a larga distancia (performance sonora telemática) que tuvo lugar el 7 de mayo de 2019, entre nueve mujeres inmigrantes colombianas y latinoamericanas que residen en las ciudades de Oslo – Barcelona – Londres. Después de un año de compartir sueños y escuchar sus migraciones, expresaron sus Viajes Migratorios, y también respondieron a la memoria oral de las mujeres colombianas en diáspora que no conocen. El movimiento de sus respiraciones fue sonificado y amplificado en tiempo real en las tres ciudades, como una forma de tener presencia “embodied” o incorporada. Este fue un sueño compartido.
INTIMAL: Improvisación a larga distancia en Tiempo Real (Oslo, Barcelona, Londres)
En esta improvisación sonora telemática, utilizando Internet, nueve mujeres colombianas que viven y se conectan desde las ciudades de Oslo, Barcelona y Londres, expresarán sus viajes migratorios simultáneamente (en tiempo real) a través del movimiento corporal, la voz y el lenguaje. Sus recuerdos también se evocarán mientras escuchan un archivo oral con testimonios de Mujeres Colombianas en la Diáspora, sobre sus experiencias como migrantes en Europa y sus recuerdos del conflicto colombiano. El archivo será navegado a través de una herramienta digital que interrelaciona de manera móvil, estos fragmentos de memoria oral.
INTIMAL: Long Distance Improvisation in Real Time (Oslo, Barcelona, London)
In this telematic sonic improvisation, using the Internet, nine Colombian women living in and connecting from the cities of Oslo, Barcelona and London, will express their migratory journeys simultaneously (in real time) through body movement, breathing, voice and language. Their memories will also be triggered while they listen to an oral archive with testimonies from the organization Diaspora Women, about their experiences as migrants in Europe and their memories of the Colombian conflict. The archive will be navigated through a digital tool that interrelates in a mobile manner these fragments of oral memory.
Oslo
Venue: Melahuset, Mariboes gate 8, 0183 Oslo
Time: 8pm
Barcelona
Venue: Fundación Phonos, Campus de las Comunicaciones de Poblenou (UPF)
Carrer de Roc Boronat, 138
08018 Barcelona
Time: 8pm
London
Venue: Iklectik Art Lab
Iklectik Art Lab, London
‘Old Paradise Yard’
20 Carlisle Lane (Royal Street corner) next to Archbishop’s Park.
SE1 7LG
Time: 7pm
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Artist-Researcher: Ximena Alarcón-Díaz
Postdoctoral Researcher, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Motion, Time and Rhythm, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
Improvisers:
INTIMAL Listening Community – Colombian Migrant women in Oslo, Barcelona and London
Artistic and Technical Implementation:
Mari Lesteberg, Elias Sukken Andersen, Eirik Dahl, Eigil Aandahl, Çagri Erdem
Technical Implementation:
Paul Boddie, Lucia Nikolaia Lopez Bohorquez
Artistic and Technical Advice:
Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Technical Support Barcelona:
Ángel Faraldo.
Xavier Favory, Nerea Tascón. IT support: Germán España.
RITMO Researchers, University of Oslo; Master in Music, Communication and Technology, UiO (Oslo) and NTNU (Trondheim); Fundación PHONOS, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; CRiSAP, LCC, University of the Arts London; IKLECTIK Art Lab, London; MELAHUSET, Oslo; VOXLAB, Oslo; Diaspora Women – Barcelona and London; Centre for Deep Listening, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Funding:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 752884, and has been partially supported by the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence scheme, project number 262762.
INTIMAL: Improvisación a larga distancia en Tiempo Real (Oslo, Barcelona, Londres)
En esta improvisación sonora telemática, utilizando Internet, nueve mujeres colombianas que viven y se conectan desde las ciudades de Oslo, Barcelona y Londres, expresarán sus viajes migratorios simultáneamente (en tiempo real) a través del movimiento corporal, la voz y el lenguaje. Sus recuerdos también se evocarán mientras escuchan un archivo oral con testimonios de Mujeres Colombianas en la Diáspora, sobre sus experiencias como migrantes en Europa y sus recuerdos del conflicto colombiano.
INTIMAL: Long Distance Improvisation in Real Time (Oslo, Barcelona, London)
In this telematic sonic improvisation, using the Internet, nine Colombian women living in and connecting from the cities of Oslo, Barcelona and London, will express their migratory journeys simultaneously (in real time) through body movement, breathing, voice and language. Their memories will also be triggered while they listen to an oral archive with testimonies from the organization Diaspora Women, about their experiences as migrants in Europe and their memories of the Colombian conflict. The archive will be navigated through a digital tool that interrelates in a mobile manner these fragments of oral memory.
Oslo
Venue: Melahuset, Mariboes gate 8, 0183 Oslo
Time: 8pm
Barcelona
Venue: Fundación Phonos, Campus de las Comunicaciones de Poblenou (UPF)
Carrer de Roc Boronat, 138
08018 Barcelona
Time: 8pm
London
Venue: Iklectik Art Lab
Iklectik Art Lab, London
‘Old Paradise Yard’
20 Carlisle Lane (Royal Street corner) next to Archbishop’s Park.
SE1 7LG
Time: 7pm
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Artist-Researcher: Ximena Alarcón-Díaz
Postdoctoral Researcher, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Motion, Time and Rhythm, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
Improvisers:
INTIMAL Listening Community – Colombian Migrant women in Oslo, Barcelona and London
Artistic and Technical Implementation:
Mari Lesteberg, Elias Sukken Andersen, Eirik Dahl, Eigil Aandahl, Çagri Erdem
Technical Implementation:
Paul Boddie, Lucia Nikolaia Lopez Bohorquez
Artistic and Technical Advice:
Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Technical Support Barcelona:
Ángel Faraldo.
Xavier Favory, Nerea Tascón. IT support: Germán España.
RITMO Researchers, University of Oslo; Master in Music, Communication and Technology, UiO (Oslo) and NTNU (Trondheim); Fundación PHONOS, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; CRiSAP, LCC, University of the Arts London; IKLECTIK Art Lab, London; MELAHUSET, Oslo; VOXLAB, Oslo; Diaspora Women – Barcelona and London; Centre for Deep Listening, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Funding:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 752884, and has been partially supported by the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence scheme, project number 262762.
INTIMAL: Interfaces for Relational Listening 