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Blåshålet
- 2019
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- Denna session, baserad på material från ett historiskt ljudarkiv, utgår från ljudinspelningar av kommunikationsexperiment med delfiner som utfördes på 1950 och 60‐talet i USA, där delfinerna skulle lära sig att tala engelska med blåshålet.
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Gränssnitt
- 2019
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Konstnärligt arbeteabstract
- Ur inbjudan: "Välkomna i skymningen till en experimentell kväll med ljudvandring, film, installationer och värmande brasa. Vi har under olika tidpunkter och skiftande årstider återkommit till en och samma plats, en kolonilott. Nu bjuder vi in till en work-in-progress där vi hoppas att ni vill komma och lyssna, titta, vandra och värma er med oss.Vi har tänkt på kolonin som ett gränssnitt, ett medium som förbinder olika användare. Några av dessa användare är Zea mays, satellitparet Sentinel-1, diverse däggdjur, samt en uppsjö växter, mikrober och okända entiteter."
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- Holmstedt, Janna, 1972-
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Are you ready for a wet live-in? : explorations into listening
- 2017
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Listen. If I ask you to listen, what is it that I ask of you—that you will understand, or perhaps obey? Or is it some sort of readiness that is requested? What occurs with a body in the act of listening? How do sound and voice structure audio-visual-spatial relations in concrete situations?This doctoral thesis in fine arts consists of six artworks and an essay that documents the research process, or rather, acts as a travelogue as it stages and narrates a series of journeys into a predominantly sonic ecology. One entry into this field is offered by the animal “voice” and attempts to teach animals to speak human language. The first journey concerns a specific case where humanoid sounds were found to emanate from an unlikely source—the blowhole of a dolphin. Another point of entry is offered by the acousmatic voice, a voice split from its body, and more specifically, my encounter with the disembodied voice of Steve Buscemi in a prison in Philadelphia. This listening experience triggered a fascination with, and an inquiry into, the voices that exist alongside us, the parasitic relation that audio technology makes possible, and the way an accompanying voice changes one’s perceptions and even one’s behavior. In the case of both the animal and the acousmatic, the seemingly trivial act of attending to a voice quickly opens up a complex space of embodied entanglements with the potential to challenge much of what we take for granted. At the heart of my inquiry is a series of artworks made between 2012 and 2016, which constitute a third journey: the performance Limit-Cruisers (#1 Sphere), the praxis session Limit-Cruisers (#2 Crowd), the installations Therapy in Junkspace, Fluorescent You, and “Then, ere the bark above their shoulders grew,” and the lecture performance Articulations from the Orifice (The Dry and the Wet).The relationship between what is seen and heard is being explored and renegotiated in the arts and beyond. We are increasingly addressed by prerecorded and synthetic voices in both public and private spaces. Simultaneously, our notions of human communication are challenged and complicated by recent research in animal communication. My work attempts to address the shifts and complexities embodied in these developments. The three journeys are deeply entwined with theoretical inquiries into human-animal relationships, technology, and the philosophy of sound. In the essay, I consider as well how other artistic practices are exploring this same complex space. What I put forward is a materialist and concrete approach to listening understood as a situated practice. Listening is both a form of co-habitation and an ecology. In and through listening, I claim, one could be said to perform in concert with the things heard while at the same time being changed by them.
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- Holmstedt, Janna, 1972-
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Between Earthworms and Satellites
- 2019
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Ingår i: Open Humanities Lab Symposium: New Humanities & the Anthropocene, KTH, Stockholm, 14-15 May, 2019.
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- Holmstedt, Janna
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Interspecies Bodies and Watery Sonospheres : Listening in the Lab, the Archives and the Field
- 2020
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Ingår i: Leonardo music journal. - : MIT Press - Journals. - 0961-1215 .- 1531-4812. ; 30, s. 95-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this text, the author brings together scientific interspecies communication experiments, artistic practice and feminist posthumanities to inquire into the transformative role of sound and listening. Departing from an archive with recordings of human-dolphin language experiments, this research attends to sound as evidence and listening as a situated knowledge practice, with ethico-political implications that trouble Western, visually oriented knowledge systems. By imploding interfaces into situations of shared surfaces, the author directs attention to the logics of the skin to bring forth matters of care and suggest how listening might contribute to more careful and attentive modes of knowing.
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- Holmstedt, Janna, 1972-
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The Blowhole : Posthumanist reflections on interspecies communication, listening, and the aesthetics of more-than-human relations
- 2019
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Ingår i: RE:SOUND, the 8th International Conference for Histories of Media Arts 2019, Aalborg, Denmark, 20-22 Aug, 2019..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sounds are leaky phenomena, pointing to the unavoidable entanglement of bodies, technologies and environs. A captured sound is a record of loss, as is the archive. This loss urges me – as artist, researcher, and listener – to story and restory entanglements. While the media might be fixed, listening is fluid and dynamic. And a sonic sensibility, I find, holds the potential to counteract a reductive, visual-textual logic and its related knowledge formations.This journey into a predominantly sonic ecology departs from the unique archival material of American neurophysiologist John C. Lilly. In the 1950s and 1960s Lilly conducted controversial scientific experiments with dolphins, as well as on himself. I will focus on an aspect previously not discussed in relation to Lilly's dolphin research, the role of listening and the use of sound technology, and I will attend to Lilly's experimental set-ups as media ecologies. The encounter with an animal "voice" and the attempts to record this phenomena as sound objects would force Lilly into uncharted territories. When the recordings of words uttered by dolphins were played back to other researchers, they didn't hear what Lilly's team had heard. As Lilly began experimenting with sound, it seemed as neither technology nor perception could be relied on. Even the role of language in the act of communication became increasingly elusive.
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(P)Art of the Biomass
- 2019
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- Är möjligt att tala om jordens, dvs. myllans, rättigheter? Jord är i många fall en blind fläck och något som lätt tas för givet. Den ligger där under våra fötter. Samtidigt är den ett komplext levande system som håller på att utarmas. Den kallas också en hotad resurs, då människans matproduktion och det hårt industrialiserade jordbruket har nått en kritisk gräns.Holmstedt och Lobell utgår från jord som mer-än-mänsklig aktivitetszon och habitat då de spekulerar i möjligheten att upprätta ett Allting. Förutom att anknyta till nordisk historia och de tidiga församlingarna för lagstiftning, rättskipning och förvaltning, syftar Allting på Bruno Latours teori "Parliament of Things" där lagar inte instiftas med människan i centrum utan kring livet självt.Om vi skulle kalla till ting, vilka tingsplatser skulle kunna fungera som relationella "knutar" där politiska ekologier och mer-än-mänskliga relationer kan uppmärksammas? Vilka nya lagar skulle kunna framträda ur varje tingsplats om den bemöts som ett parlament av mänskliga och icke-mänskliga aktörer där människan inte är den privilegierade livsformen. Behövs jordreservat? Krävs en ny jordreform? Vilka är myllans rättigheter?
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RECLAIMING FUTURES : Ungdomar sätter agendan på vetenskapsfestival
- 2022
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- I Reclaiming Futures - Storying Change möts ungdomar och forskare för samtal om klimatförändringar, miljöfrågor och vårt förhållande till naturen. Projektet har bland annat resulterat i ett antal kortfilmer. Nu presenteras delar av arbetet på en vetenskapsfestival med ett gediget program skapat och producerat av ungdomarna i samarbete med forskare och kulturaktörer.
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