Fresh off an amazing sound workshop in Norway last week called Soundshed, we hear sounds reflecting sonic presence and absence, hauntings, ruins, and imaginaries. The project, funded by the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities, explored sound at the intersections of art, ecology, and energy production at Kistefos, a sculpture park and museum located on the site of a former paper pulp mill about an hour outside Oslo. I was excited to be part of this project led by Sadie Menicanin from University of Oslo and can’t wait for you to hear the sonic collages created by the participants.

Co-creators

Sadie Menicanin

Steve Williams

Kyle Devine

Megan Gette

Cristina Archetti

Moa Hjärtström

Elise Matilde Malik

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Parisa KhoeiLucy Cathcart Frödén

Vicky Mikalsen

Nikos Baskozos

Chryso Nikolaou

Sofia Shuvanova

Kahena Wilhite

Links

IMV Instagram @unioslo_imv

Kistefos https://www.kistefosmuseum.com/

Soundshed project page https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/oceh/research/teams-phase-two/junior-collaborative-research-teams-1/soundshed.html

UNRULY Sustainability https://unrulinesss.com/

Thumper trucks and dowsing rods. Seismic listening and fraudulent maps. Ham radio and silence. Just a few of the ideas we cover in today’s show with Megan Gette. Megan is an artist, a writer, a poet, an editor, interested in how sensemaking is articulated and given material form. Playing with technologies of listening, fluidity and im/materialisms , her artistic and academic works made for a fascinating conversation. Check out our chat and listen to some of her sounds.

Bio

It is hard to name the various crises of the present to which theory promises to attune. The worlds of others are incoherent. Thought is immanent to material processes and their social fragmentations. I am interested in how sensemaking is articulated and given material form. I examine techniques and technologies of listening through which extractive atmospherics shapes perception and ordinary life.

Links

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/808omega/

Artist web site: https://atrace2.cargo.site/

Today I am thrilled to have on the show Natalia Escobar. Natalia is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and DJ whose practice spans moving images, sound, performance, and installations. Her work explores Abya Yala phenomenology, Indigenous cosmovisions, identity, and memory, drawing from decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives. Since 2021, she has been developing pedagogical projects and collaborations with different Indigenous communities in South America, notably with Las Traviesas, a community of trans-Indigenous women from the Embera people in Colombia. Together, they have developed initiatives that promote social and ecological transformation through artistic processes, emphasizing transdisciplinary collaboration as a strategy to challenge colonial norms and reimagine alternative realities and spaces for knowledge exchange. So you can imagine how excited I am to speak with Natalia today.

Bio

Natalia Escobar is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and DJ whose practice spans moving images, sound, performance, and installations. Her work explores Abya Yala phenomenology, Indigenous cosmovisions, identity, and memory, drawing from decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives. Since 2021, Escobar has been developing pedagogical projects and collaborations with different Indigenous communities in South America, notably with Las Traviesas, a community of trans-Indigenous women from the Embera people in Colombia. Together, they have developed initiatives that promote social and ecological transformation through artistic processes, emphasizing transdisciplinary collaboration as a strategy to challenge colonial norms and reimagine alternative realities and spaces for knowledge exchange.

Links

https://www.instagram.com/discobar/

https://www.instagram.com/poison.arrow/

https://www.instagram.com/awera___/

https://www.instagram.com/pierce_with_arrow/

Artist Web site https://www.nataliaescobar.com/

Awera project https://www.nataliaescobar.com/awera