KONTEJNER presents: Heard by the Deep
16. — 20.5.2023.
Marco Barotti ∙ Stijn Demeulenaere ∙ Fara Peluso ∙ Francisca Rocha Gonçalves ∙ Robertina Šebjanič ∙ pantea ∙ u‑matic ∙ telematique ∙ Marko Marković ∙ Josipa Vujević ∙ Tanja Minarik
► SCHEDULE ► https://bit.ly/ASeaChange_
► Tuesday – Saturday 16. – 20.5.2023.
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 19.5.2023.
BETON KINO / DOM MLADIH
▷ 9 pm pantea, u‑matic, telematique: Fragile Fragments
Audiovizualni performans / Audio-visual performance
► Saturday 20.5.2023.
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
The exhibition Heard by the Deep focuses on the topic of the sea, its (human and non-human) communities and the related environmental urgencies – as devastating as they are imperceptible to our human senses.
Featured artists work both with concrete scientific marine data – its usage, production, and visualization – and new, speculative, imaginative scenarios, making our comprehension of the sea environment experiential and emphasizing 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.
Heard by the Deep program was created and produced by KONTEJNER within the international project A Sea Change focused on interdisciplinary and intermedia arts, artistic and curatorial research dealing with a wide range of sea-related subjects such as marine ecosystems, the well-being of coastal populations, blue economy, and bioacoustics. The program is co-curated together with project partners MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts (GR), NeMe (CY), and Quo Artis Foundation (ES), and realized with the support of local partners MedILS – Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences and Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split.
