Pulse is a sonically resonating bronze and glass sculpture, a human-to-soil probe connecting to its chosen environment’s ecosystemic agencies and prerequisites of bioactivity with the help of moisture and temperature sensors. The sound sculpture taps into the pulse on the Earth’s skin, the thin organic layer covering our stony planet. In its ethos, the sculpture creates a site of attention to those fragile conditions of life that lie below our feet, and that we classically do not understand to be part of the idea of ‘landscape’. Landscape is understood here as volumes instead of surfaces, and sculpture as a possibility to open routes, places to stop and ways of bodily encounter the dynamism of these volumes as a materially resonating, aesthetic experience. The sculpture was moved around the Amstelpark and exhibited inside the Glass Pavilion, connected to a resident plant from the nearby Orangerie.
Polyphonic Landscapes is an artistic research project by ArtEZ professorship Theory in the Arts, in collaboration with Zone2source, in Amsterdam. The project inquires the question how sound and the act of listening can contribute to a more active understanding of landscapes. In other words: How can our sense of hearing foster a more embodied, inclusive, relational, and reciprocal connectivity to our environment, the latter being ecologically understood as a process in which various life forms, materials, energy flows, and temporalities are involved?
Participants
Initiative, coordination:
Professorship Theory in the Arts, ArtEZ University of the Arts
Dr. Peter Sonderen, responsible professor
Joep Christenhusz, MA, project leader
Zone2Source
Alice Smits, artistic director
Artistic Researchers:
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IN, NL)
Yolande Harris (UK, US)
Teemu Lehmusruusu (FI)
Lia Mazzari (IT, UK)