EPAS - European Postgraduate in Arts in Sound

We would like to invite everybody interested to join us

Symposium: art and sound in public space
Friday 17th of March from 4pm-6pm
KASK – Louis Pasteurlaan 2 – 9000 Gent

Who sounds? Who listens?
Whose noise? Whose body?
What reverberates?
What reflects and refracts?
What absorbs? What slips through?
What echoes? What fades and is lost?
What is gained and amplified?
What effects, what affects?
What is its trajectory?

Sound is a slippery material; invisible vibrations that can permeate spaces, changing meaning depending on the listener and the context, revealing qualities of space and place that may be hidden from the eye. Sound making and listening practices that are enacted or diffused in public space can vary in form. Each practice brings with it a certain listening politics,its own temporality and its own listening bodies. The interaction between sound, art and architecture in public space is even slipperier – where so many different creators, sources, contexts and listeners with their own desires and objectives meet. One thing that is always certain is that we cannot escape their effect or affect on us as a public body that moves through the world outside of our private spaces. This symposium brings together a group of practising artists and researchers to reflect and expand on a few of the different approaches to listening and experiencing art in public space.
This symposium is organised by Melissa Ryke (Australian artist based in Brussels) & Raf Enckels (coordinator of the Herculeslab at Kask) in the context of the think tank on experiencing art in public space run by Angelique Campens.

With speakers :

Franziska Windisch – Listening constellations
Urban public spaces are areas where architectural, social, political and ecological aspects coincide and overlap, they are places of conflict as well as togetherness. Franziska Windisch talks about her performance works that explore the role of listening as relational practice and active participation in the co-creation of the public. Her scores for choreographed listening situations approach the complexity of urban environments as a form to collectively engage with specific places and their context.
http://www.franziskawindisch.com/

Caroline Claus –Performing variations of listening in planning and design research
She will present some of the theories, conceptions and methodological choices that inform her sonic planning and design research on transformative urban infracture space. She will explain her approach to site and strategy via a short review of her case study of Antwerpsesteenweg-North (CDA_N). By discussing sonic cartography as a method for site survey in urban planning and design research, she will argue for a decentering of the listener and, from here, for a critical rethinking of the ecological, social, and aesthetic value of urban sound and vibration, and the importance of creating conditions for an open (infra)structuring of affective and aesthetic sonic experience for transitory public urban space.
https://hematomes.be/boutique/catalogue/the-derailment-of-the-usual/
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3826-0708

Ingel Vaikla – Architecture as a Storyteller
Ingel Vaikla is a visual artist and a filmmaker based in Brussels working primarily with video, 16 mm film and found footage. Vaikla’s artistic practice explores architecture as a storyteller and the relationship spaces have with their communities. She believes architecture do not only provide shelter but often becomes the concrete extension of our imagined identities and fluid bodies. She is on a constant search for visual language that would translate the existential, conceptual and ideological qualities spaces manifest.
http://www.vaiklastudio.ee/

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay – Exile and other Listenings
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay works with listening in public spaces as an embodied act of sensing and surviving. In his largely auto-ethnographic body of work, migratory and nomadic listening positionalities play a critical role. In this intervention, he will present two projects, The Nomadic Listener (2020), and Exile and other Syndromes (2019), both developed from his own experience of migration and nomadic movements in Europe and psychogeographic exploration of public and built spaces.
https://budhaditya.org/
https://criticalmedialab.ch/people/budhaditya-chattopadhyay/

Founder of the EPAS program Martine Huvenne just finished her new book.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-4807-7

And here's our big announcement of the Spring P U L S E 2022!
This year the turn of the seasons from winter cold to spring blossom has also been a dramatic reversal in our lives and the big world around us. We are saddened and heartbroken with the ongoing war in Ukraine and hope for the remains of sanity and the peace to return! We also find it hard to behave as nothing happened. And at the same time, we can not stop, whether it's creating, reflecting, or connecting people!

In its own way, C O M (E) P U L S I V E team continues setting a virtual space and a platform for the artists to create new works and meet their audiences. This is our core effort during the times when remote runs ahead of the physical and when we feel overwhelmed and numbed.

We accomplish it by putting together P U L S E 2022 - an audiovisual program that will inveil during the next 8 weeks. And you are invited to discover the line-up of invited artists! We will start on March 17th.

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Big hug from our team: Alina Ozerova, AR AR, Ioana Mandrescu, Stijn Demeulenaere & Rebecca Glover

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