Ultima: Creative seminar and sound installations

How can sound and art strengthen connections between people, local communities, and nature? This seminar allows the audience to meet artists and experience artistic practices that invite us to listen to the world in new ways.

The contributions are based on the use of materials, stories, and technology with a conscious relationship to environment and resources. They draw on local nature, neighbourhoods, and ecological issues, and approach materials, stories, and technology with a sustainable perspective.

Through various presentations, workshops, and conversations, participants are given tools to strengthen connections between people, places, and the more-than-human, and to inspire new forms of care and responsibility. Some parts of the seminar (10–11 September) are closed and require registration.

Open Programme:
Friday 12 September 09.30–14.20

09.00 Welcome with coffee and tea
09.30 Introduction by composer, sound artist and performer Lil Lacy 
09.35 Presentation: Luis Fernando Amaya – Musical Exercises to Connect with the More-Than-Human
10.35 Presentation: Natalie Hyacinth – MUVA of da EarTH: Black Sonic Techno Feminism in an Era of Nature Loss
10.55 Presentation: Frazer Merrick – Musical Mudlarking
11.15 Break
11.30 Lecture: Giuseppe Pisano-Riise – The Mic and the Street: A Look into the Ethics of Field Recordings in Urban Environments
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Lecture: Jessie Cox – Imagining New Futures Through Sound

Installation Programme:
Friday 12 September 14.30–22.00

• Video installation: John Andrew Wilhite – Critical Resonance, Critical Ecologies
• Installation: Frazer Merrick – Musical Mudlarking
• Installation: Natalie Hyacinth – MUVA //
• Video documentation: Margrethe Pettersen – Láibmat II
• Video installation and sneak peek: Luis Fernando Amaya – Mi Libro es la Tierra: Rosa Ixchel
• Listening station: Giuseppe Pisano-Riise – Anecdote_#1

Read more about the programme here.