How to build an interspecies acoustic community?
The project is based on the intersection of the fields of study of ecoacoustics, zoomusicology and decolonial ecology, and is being developed in parallel with my personal art practice. It started within a community, the Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit in Berlin, where stages of the work have already been publicly presented in different ways (2022 and 2023, see documentation below). Another public presentation was at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, as part of the symposium "Time to Listen" (scroll down to see the documentation of my session) in August 2023.
Its objectives are:
get a glimpse of the great sound complexity of ecosystems through a conversational and almost narrative approach,the use of immagination and creative listening;
try to critically investigate the alienation of most human beings, including myself, from nonhuman animals and the ecosystem of which we are also part and on which our lives depend;
look for traces of effective communication between humans and non-humans in the European context (i.e., the culture in which I was born and raised and which I therefore feel I can best understand);
promote a collective or community discourse, reflection, or practice.
What this project does NOT aim for instead is:
the production of an artistic work based on the collection and interpretation of scientific data, field recordings, traditional art practices etc. or a piece of “ecological art”,
a scientific research work (although much of the material I used came from studies in ecoacoustics, landscape ecology, biology etc.).
a healing process through art practice to reconnect with nature, the environment, one's body, or other stuff like that.
