Vortex: artistic and curatorial practices for wind
Vortex: artistic and curatorial practices for wind
Vortex: Actions for a Moving Body (2023) is an installation about sound and wind. These two invisible entangled forces are restaged in a museum setting while they remain proxies of the landscape they were extracted from. The wind that is recreated is a small- scale reminder of the impact of wind turbines, in this case on the landscape on the north coast of Spain. However, the soundscapes are simulated as large waves that envelop the listener and the space into an acoustic atmosphere: the acoustics enlarge the space and the experiential dimensions of locations. Indoors and outdoors temporarily change place in this auditory cultural technique. The minimalist visual design of the sound installation (figs.1 and 2) brings forth this dynamic of hidden but audible, infrastructurally invisible force. This envelope is also part of the core questions of the artistic research project that led to the commissioned installation at LABoral, in Gijon: Can we sense energy landscapes as soundscapes? Can experimental ecoacoustics help to understand the transformation of landscapes?
Wind, environmental humanities, ecomedia, environmental media, Artistic Research, curatorial research, Spain
485-497
Mazón Gardoqui, Víctor
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Parikka, Jussi
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1 November 2024
Mazón Gardoqui, Víctor
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Parikka, Jussi
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Mazón Gardoqui, Víctor and Parikka, Jussi
(2024)
Vortex: artistic and curatorial practices for wind.
Cultural Politics, 20 (3), .
(doi:10.1215/17432197-11321330).
Abstract
Vortex: Actions for a Moving Body (2023) is an installation about sound and wind. These two invisible entangled forces are restaged in a museum setting while they remain proxies of the landscape they were extracted from. The wind that is recreated is a small- scale reminder of the impact of wind turbines, in this case on the landscape on the north coast of Spain. However, the soundscapes are simulated as large waves that envelop the listener and the space into an acoustic atmosphere: the acoustics enlarge the space and the experiential dimensions of locations. Indoors and outdoors temporarily change place in this auditory cultural technique. The minimalist visual design of the sound installation (figs.1 and 2) brings forth this dynamic of hidden but audible, infrastructurally invisible force. This envelope is also part of the core questions of the artistic research project that led to the commissioned installation at LABoral, in Gijon: Can we sense energy landscapes as soundscapes? Can experimental ecoacoustics help to understand the transformation of landscapes?
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Published date: 1 November 2024
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Wind, environmental humanities, ecomedia, environmental media, Artistic Research, curatorial research, Spain
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/508786
ISSN: 1743-2197
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