User:Anita!/Final presentation
Special Issues
SI 22
Strawberry Cake broadcast with Mania and Wang We focused on exploring connections of movement, sound, and field recordings. We were wondering how can movment be translated and shown through radio?
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Hitchhikers broadcast with Rosa and Thijs. We were exploring interactivity with audience, by making a radio broadcast in which the partecipation of the audience was necessary to continue telling the story.
For the launch, I worked on the 'curtain', a sewn modular archive as an element to 'safekeep' and protect the different projects, sounds and survival tools that were created for the SI.
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SI 23
During this Special Issue I started exploring sewing as a research method, quilting as a way of connecting thoughts and ideas.
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For the launch at Varia, I worked with Bernadette, Maria and Alessia on loading... feminist server, we focused on the connection between digital and physical interfaces, making a game that required input from both sides.
SI 24
My focus really started to shift more into what I researched in the second year with the final project. I worked on several projectes, and I was super inspired by the special issue classes. I started mapping rotterdam theugh sound, and translated this into. I moved all around the city, recording everything, listened back, took notes and them sewed them together into an abstract map.
I also built a small device measuring loudness, and threugh it listened to an area in my neighbourhood. I then used that to knit a small patch of fabric, based on the threshold sound or no sound.
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For the launch I worked with Mania on Scripts to read the City. I also worked on 'Scripts to read the City' with Mania, a publication containing a series of scripts to look and listen in public space. The project imagines an urban environment that can be read, analyzed and criticized as a text. By reading the city in this way we find other possible ways of seeing, moving and listening. In a scripted city, marked by escalating levels of perfection, efficiency and control, the emancipatory aspects of urban life are undermined, allowing little room for anything that doesn't fit the image of the "norm".
Scripts to Read the City is an attempt to foster diverse experiences and uses of space, similar to a theater script interpreted differently by each actor. The tools of navigation are a device indicating which character to play and a guide, including a set of directions and instructions.
The project explores a relation between scripts and spontaneity, chance and control, and how scripts and unpredictability can enhance each other, stimulating imagination, encouraging us to engage with space from another perspective.
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workshops and moments of inspiration
Scripts to read the city was brought forward as a project from Mania and me, and we hosted more workshops at SIGN as a part of Spread Zinefest in Groningen and at Manifest:io in Berlin.
This was particularly interesting in realizing how different each time this workshop is hosted is, and to notice how different people connect to the reaserch. I had many interesting conversations that contributed to the development of my research for the second year as well.
research and thesis
In my thesis 'Textured Listening' I write and reaserch listening in the context of public space.
why? what is this project?
public moment one
For the first public moment, I wanted to test movement and touch in silence. I asked visitors to wear headphones
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public moment two
At the Leeszaal public moment, I wanted to test ways for people to be able to listen deeply and in a concentrated way. I played a series of field recordings I recorded in a square in my neighbourhood.
plans for final publication and grad show
Fabric, sounds, playing, moving, listening!
