Fluid Formations

Talks, screenings, assemblies and live radio

13–14 September 2024

Vega Scene

Free

Showings and tickets

Friday, 13/09

14:00–19:00

Vega Scene

Free

Saturday, 14/09

10:00–17:00

Vega Scene

Free

Fluid Formations brings artists, researchers, practitioners and audience members together in a two-day gathering of communal listening and thinking in and around Vega Scene.

Invited artists engage with the multispecies ecologies we are part of, and the histories that continue to resonate with and affect us today. The programme asks how to listen to our environment against the background of ongoing geopolitical crises and an accelerating climate emergency. How to understand ourselves as ‘fluid formations’?

Over the two days, participants will engage with different listening positions, while addressing questions around music and migration, environmental listening, and the voice as a (political) instrument. Alternating between conversations (confluences), listening sessions (tributaries), screenings (streams) and radio interviews (waves), the programme asks how gathering around music and sound can encourage empathy and solidarity with others, especially in the present difficult times.

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*Updated schedule

Friday 13 September, 14:00 - 19:00

Salongen

﹌ 14:00 - 14:10 introduction by Heloisa Amaral and Katía Truijen

︴14:10 - 14:30 The Oceanographies Institute, lecture performance by Marialena Marouda

﹌ 14:30 - 15:15 fathom, in conversation with Jana Winderen, Chris Watson, Tony Myatt, moderated by Katía Truijen

﹏15:15 - 15:30 Planktonium, a short film by Jan van IJken

﹌ 16:00 - 16:45Tremble Staves, Katya García-Antón in conversation with Raven Chacon

﹏16:45 - 17:15 Láibmat, a short film by Margrethe Pettersen, in collaboration with Dana Tomešková, Maia Birkeland and Christina Disington

﹌ 17:15 - 18:30Wave Through assembly with Marialena Marouda, Anne Hytta, Margrethe Pettersen, curated and moderated by Giada Dalla Bontà and Katía Truijen, in collaboration with Norsk Komponistforening

︴18:30 - 19:00 Horizontal Stillness, performance by Anne Hytta

Foajè

〜14:30 - 15:00Cường Minh Bá Phạm〜15:30 - 16:00Pouya Pour-Amin and Rasha Nahas〜16:15 - 16:45Berno Odo Polzer and Katía Truijen (House of Listening)〜17:30 - 18:00Enji and Kristin Norderval
Radio conversations in collaboration with Radio WORM, led by Ash Kilmartin. Eachsession opening with a contribution by participants in KHiO's Between Site and Voice course.

Saturday 14 September, 10:00 - 23:30

Akerselva

︴10:00 - 10:45 soundwalk Akerselva led by Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, starting point at bus stop Arendalsgata at 10:00

Salongen

﹌ 11:00 - 11:45Black Industrial/Noise, in conversation with Dubmorphology and Nkisi, moderated by Oliver Fuke

︴11:45 - 12:15 The Third Pole: Moving Mountains, listening session by Nischal Khadka

﹏12:15 - 13:15 The Politics of Participation, a film by Megan-Leigh Heilig, presented by Sounds Now

﹌ 13:30 - 14:15 Dancing into Fire, in conversation with Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Oddrun Lilja, moderated by Giada Dalla Bontà

﹌ 14:30 - 15:15 Freedom to Move, in conversation with Emily Adomah, Reshail Mansoor, Kaia Rullestad Teigen, moderated by Radna Rumping

﹌ 15:30 - 16:30 Wave Crest assembly, with Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Oddrun Lilja, Nischal Khadka, Polina Medvedeva, Andreas Kühne, Pouya Pour-Amin, curated and moderated by Giada Dalla Bontà and Katía Truijen

︴16:30 - 17:00 Facing the spills: a borderland listening, lecture performance by Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne

Foajè

〜11:30 - 12:00Curating Lab on Lyden av minner er lyden av hjem soundwalk

〜12:15 - 12:45Lucia D’Errico and students from KHiO (Oslo National Academy Norway)

〜13:00 - 16:00artists to be confirmed

〜16:15 - 16:45Viktorija Šiaulytė and JL Murtaugh

Radio conversations in collaboration with Radio WORM, led by Ash Kilmartin. Each session opening with a contribution by participants in KHiO's Between Site and Voice course.

Vega 1 and 3 (Cinema Hall)

﹏17:15 - 19:00Taming the Garden, a film by Salomé Jashi (2021)

﹏19:30 - 21:10Aquarela, a film by Victor Kossakovsky (2020)

﹏21:30 - 23:20Geographies of Solitude, a film by Jacquelyn Mills (2022)

Film programme curated in collaboration with MIRAGE film festival