Resonant and entangled: Sound-based approaches to intersections between art, science and technology

Arguably, the greatest potential of intersections between art, science and technology lies not only in bringing forth new knowledge, but in manifesting complexity and entanglement – from fluid borders to misplaced translations, from curious frictions to mixed results, from wow to wonder (-ing what was the point?)! These interdisciplinary encounters are thus frequently most productive at their most frustrating, the most meaningful knowledge often occurring in the attention to the vitality of process, in its rhythmic fluctuations between epiphany and perplexity, rather than in the expectation of the outcome.
In my specific practice as an artist and artistic researcher, I navigate this entanglement through performative and sound-based strategies. Using technological methods such as sonification, spatialization, live-streaming and manipulation, but also movement, voice and collective embodied techniques, my focus is often the “migration” of knowledge through different experiential schemes – cognitive, situated, immersive, narrative, affective. A migration which I have recently come to understand as metabolic in its essence – encompassing change, being generative and eluding fixed categories.
In this presentation I which to focus on discussing this migration of knowledge, how it is mediated by sonic strategies, how to fully acknowledge process as productive outcome and, finally, how to manifest it to the public.
My contribution is inspired by two recent artistic research projects made in collaboration with the Medical Museum in 2021. The sound installation and performance-lecture “Worm-whole” for the Living Room project, and the sound installation “Gut and Psyche - a close listening” with researcher Tine Friis, for the TWIIY exhibition.