Fluid Formations

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. 

Programme 13 and 14 September

﹌ confluences – conversations
︴ tributaries – listening sessions, sound walks, lecture performances
﹏ streams – film programme

〜 waves – radio interviews


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, Katía Truijen in conversation with Jana Winderen, Chris Watson, Tony Myatt
﹏ 15:15 - 15:30 Planktonium, a short film by Jan van IJken

﹌ 16:00 - 16:45 Tremble Staves, Katya García-Antón in conversation with Raven Chacon and Sarah Zahid
﹌ 17:15 - 18:30 Wave Through assembly on listening to (endangered) ecologies and cultures in the face of contemporary crises, with Marialena Marouda, Anne Hytta, Margrethe Pettersen, Raven Chacon, Sarah Zahid, Katya García-Anton, curated and moderated by Giada Dalla Bontà and Katía Truijen

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

Foajè
〜 14:30 - 15:00 Lucia D’Errico and students from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts
〜 15:30 - 16:00 Pouya Pour-Amin and Rasha Nahas
〜 16:15 - 16:45 Berno Odo Polzer and Katía Truijen (House of Listening)

〜 17:30 - 18:00 Enji and Kristin Norderval
〜 18:30 - 19:00 JL Murtaugh and Viktorija Šiaulytė (Rupert)

Radio conversations in collaboration with Radio WORM, led by Ash Kilmartin

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

︴ 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, Giada Dalla Bontà in conversation with Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Oddrun Lilja

﹌ 14:30 - 15:15 Freedom to Move, Radna Rumping in conversation with Sofia Jernberg
﹌ 15:30 - 16:30 Wave Crest assembly on sounds as instruments of resistance, protest, and solidarity 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

〜 12:15 - 12:45 artists to be confirmed
〜 13:15 - 13:45 artists to be confirmed
〜 14:15 - 14:45 artists to be confirmed

〜 15:15 - 15:45 artists to be confirmed

〜 16:15 - 16:45 Between Site and Voice, students from KHiO

Radio conversations in collaboration with Radio WORM, led by Ash Kilmartin

Vega 1 and 3 (Cinema Hall)

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

﹏ 19:30 - 21:10 Aquarela, a film by Victor Kossakovsky (2020)
﹏ 21:30 - 23:20 Geographies of Solitude, a film by Jacquelyn Mills (2022)

Film programme curated in collaboration with MIRAGE film festival