Instrumentalities for Common Grounds

In ‘Instrumentalities’ the Sono-Choreographic Collective unpacks aspects of their artistic-scientific research ‘Common Grounds’. Scaling 20 years of environmental data into 60 minutes, this participatory concert-lecture presents some of the methods developed for listening, sensing and understanding climate change from an embodied perspective. These include various sonic and somatic techniques that connect the planetary scale with individual and collective sensory scales of participants. The concert-lecture unfolds around a table that is a hybrid surface for discourse, policy, strategy, negotiation, communication and communion.

About the research ‘Common Grounds’

Climatic changes occur on spatial and temporal scales much larger and slower than those we humans can sensorially perceive. Therefore even in the face of palpable damages to the earth\s atmo-, hydro-, cryo- and geo-spheres, the climate crisis still remains for many but an inaccessible, looming threat. Common Grounds is an artistic-scientific research exploring strategies for sonifying environmental data. Initiated in 2020 by Kerstin Ergenzinger and Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari - Sono-Choreographic Collective and Julia Boike - AWI , this ongoing research asks how a long-term collaboration between the practices of geophysics and sonic arts can be translated into public experiences that offer embodied, sensorial connections to the fragile complexity of planetary systems?

Drawing on long term datasets from the fastest warming place on earth - the circumpolar region of the Arctic, the collective develops custom software, sonic instruments, storytelling strategies and participatory somatic practices towards producing a constellation of artistic outputs including a sound installation, a concert-lecture, a music record, a video work and an art-science publication.

This research has been supported by Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy, Academy for Theatre and Digitality, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Malmö City Cultural Council and Sound Environment Center at Lund University.

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