Fluid States North

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference

Period	18 Jun 2015 → 21 Jun 2015
Event type	Conference
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark

Keywords

Performance
Site-specificity
Sound art
Performance studies
Performance design
Audio culture
Presence
Art in public space

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FLUID SOUNDS is a conference taking the bodily, situated and affective modes of research into play. By merging anthropologies of sound with site-specific audio-performances we explore new ways of investigating places/spaces. Underlining listening, sensing and experiencing as part of research processes, we wish to combine art and knowledge. FLUID SOUNDS is not only an exploration of how to gain knowledge through site-specific audio performance, it is also a conference that transforms academic knowledge into performances, and performances into situated aesthetic knowledge. The conference consists of three parts Day 1) Keynote presentations and performances by international sound artists and researchers. Days 2+3) Audio production where participants produce their own academic audio papers. Day 4) Presentation and transmission of audio papers. As this format is easily transmitted across oceans, borders and disciplines, the audio papers produced during the conference will be transmitted to the other PSi conference platforms.
Fluid States North, the North Atlantic cluster at PSi 2015, invites you to explore island life conditions and possibilities through telematic presence and sensuous experience. Fluid States North is a communication platform that binds together places and people across the widespread area of the North Atlantic region. Considering the tensions between the global and the local, Fluid States North aims at creating nearness and connectedness despite distance and to provide frames for people to meet and exchange in new modes of communication. Three Nordic islands Collaborating with local artists, performers, activists and scholars, Fluid States North investigates the relationship between art and everyday life in three different types of Nordic islands: Greenland, the world’s largest island covered mostly by ice; Streymoy, the largest of Faroe Islands in the midst of the North Atlantic Ocean, and Amager, an island which forms a part of a metropolitan area of Copenhagen. Life conditions are radically different in these three island settings, and yet they are interconnected through histories of trade, settlements and colonialism, as well as socio-political and economic dimensions of regionalism and identity politics. New forms of communication Fluid States North intersects the global and the local by providing digital communication facilities to explore issues of embodiment and mediation in everyday technologies. With a geographical outset in the North Atlantic area, we invite participants to rediscover and redefine geographical settings and site-specific experience in the current negotiation of the global and the local. Climate change, capitalist interests in raw materials and energy resources, science and technology developments, and many other types of current and future explorations may radically transform the cultures and life conditions for local and regional communities. How may such displacements open for new modes of interaction, and what are the potential for creating new forms of communities and communication?

Fluid States North

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Research output

The audio paper: from situated practices to affective sound encounters

Projects

Fluid States - Fluid Sounds