Heard by the Deep is an international contemporary artistic program happening in Split, Croatia in the framework of the A sea change project. It consists of artist residencies, live performances, an exhibition, a workshop, and lectures. The common thematic framework is the sea, its (human and non-human) marine communities and the related environmental urgencies – as devastating as they are imperceptible to our human senses. More info on the programme can be found here.
Featured artists work both with concrete scientific marine data – its usage, production, and visualisation – and new, speculative, imaginative scenarios, making our comprehension of the sea environment experiential and emphasising human pollution of the marine ecosystem. While the experimental approach and multidisciplinary knowledge production underline the common topic of the programme, the majority of the projects presented here share a strong focus on noise pollution or sound in general. Apart from being the main media for communication in the marine biosphere, sound waves travel through seawater much faster and louder than through air. The effects of anthropogenic noise on marine life and the underwater world, therefore, come with even more dangerous and long-lasting consequences. In these artworks and research, the sound is more than a medium for communication and expression; in affirming new ways of coexistence that can redesign the hierarchies within the variety of sea inhabitants, the featured works bring a strong emphasis on sound in re-thinking the materiality of the sea as well as its semantics. From the microscale of the algae to the macroscale of noise pollution cartography, the underwater world truly is a sonic one.
Programme participants:
Marco Barotti ∙ Stijn Demeulenaere ∙ Fara Peluso ∙ Francisca Rocha Gonçalves ∙ Robertina Šebjanič ∙ pantea ∙ u-matic ∙ telematique ∙ Marko Marković ∙ Josipa Vujević ∙ Tanja Minarik
Timetable
Timetable in pdf can be downloaded here.► Tuesday – Saturday 16–20/05/2023
GALERIJA MKC / DOM MLADIH
Group exhibition: Marco Barotti, Stijn Demeulenaere, Fara Peluso, Francisca Rocha Gonçalves, Robertina Šebjanič
Opening: Tuesday 16/5, 8 pm | Opening hours: 17 – 20/05/2023, 17 – 21 h
► Friday 19/05/2023
BETON KINO / DOM MLADIH
▷ 9 pm pantea, u-matic, telematique: Fragile Fragments
Audio-visual performance
► Saturday 20/05/2023
MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR LIFE SCIENCES (MedILS)
▷ 3 pm – Toni Meštrović: Presentation of the field recording workshop
▷ 4 pm – Fara Peluso: Presentation of the MedILS residency The Function of the Invisible
RAZRED / DOM MLADIH
▷ 7pm – Marko Marković, Josipa Vujević: Mutual Aid Orchestra, the strategies of sound communication between species in extreme living environments / Presentation of the MedILS residency
BETON KINO / DOM MLADIH
▷ 9pm – Audio-visual performance: Robertina Šebjanič, Tanja Minarik – Line | +1233m –1233m
**Cover image: Snapshots from the live AV performance Fragile Fragments, visuals u-matic & telematique ©
