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Afgang 2022Maria Lepistö: ”The Animals Were Never Alone II” (2022)
ENGLISH BELOW
Oplev et interaktivt vælg-dit-eget-eventyr-performance – og bliv selv en del af denne performance.
30:00 min.
Tidspunkter:
19. april: 13.00
27. april: 19:00
11. maj: 19:00
21. maj: 15:00
Maria Lepistö blander i sin kunst forskning, følelse og et ønske om at strække sproget i nye retninger. Med performance og foredrag som udgangspunkt bruger hun stemmer, der ligger hinsides sproget og skubber til sociale rum for at nå frem til en direkte og gensidig kommunikation mellem kunstner og publikum. I sin praksis bruger hun både humor og delvist fiktiv historiefortælling til at skabe gensidige forbindelser, samtidig med at hun dykker ned i spørgsmål om social adfærd og identitet.
Med udgangspunkt i et naturvidenskabeligt arkiv af dyrelyde har Lepistö skabt et foredrag, der i sit format minder om de rollespilsbøger, hvor man selv vælger handlingen. I foredraget beskæftiger hun sig med ensomhed som en kollektiv sindstilstand. Som en del af sin forskning fandt kunstneren på internettet et fællesskab af unge piger, der hyler som ulve, en aktivitet, der kræver at man lærer en ikkemenneskelig teknik til at kommunikere noget, der er svært – eller måske endda umuligt – at udtrykke og oversætte som menneske.
Gennem deres hylen kan disse grupper af mennesker siges at kommunikere på et ’stjålet’ sprog – forudsat at man mener, at dyr taler. Maria har modtaget sangundervisning, for som menneske at kunne tillære sig ulvenes lyde. Hun har aldrig mødt en ulv i virkeligheden, men trækker i stedet på optagelser af ulve og andre hylende mennesker. Dermed bidrager hun til et økosystem af lyd, hvor stemmen forvandles og springer fra ét medie til et andet, fra en dyrekrop til en mp3-fil i et naturvidenskabeligt arkiv og videre til en menneskekrop i en YouTube-video og sluttelig en liveoptræden.
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English:
Maria Lepistö: ”The Animals Were Never Alone II” (2022)
Dates:
April 19: 13.00
April 27: 19:00
May 11: 19:00
May 21: 15:00
Maria Lepistö mixes scientific research, emotions, and a desire for stretching
language. With performance and public speech as a starting point, she uses the voice outside of language and tests the social architecture of spaces in order to find a direct and two-sided communication between artist and audience. Her practice includes humor and semi-fictional storytelling to offer this connection while raising questions on social behavior and identity.
Starting a research process from a scientific archive of animal sounds, Maria
presents a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Lecture that addresses loneliness as a
collective human state of mind. She has localized a community of young girls
on the internet howling like wolves, an activity that requires learning a non-
human technique to communicate something difficult – if not impossible for
humans – to translate. With howling, these groups of humans communicate with a
“stolen” language if one considers that animals speak.
Maria has been receiving singing lessons to be able to appropriate the sound of wolves as a human. She has never met a wolf but relies on recordings of wolves and other howling humans, contributing to an ecosystem of sound where the voice transforms from one media to another, from an animal body to an mp3 file in a scientific archive, to a human body in a YouTube video, to a live performance.
2013, Maria Lepistö founded the Animal Sound Society, an ongoing project about listening to animals. It is a collaborative project, featuring artists and performers working with voice, movement, dramaturgy, text, and speech.
So far, it has resulted in several performances, workshops, collective listening sessions and video work such as The Animal Choir (Oude Kerk and Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam), Frank Sinatra is Also the Name of a Bird (Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde), The Animals Were Never Alone: a public space performance (Blågårds Plads, Copenhagen, Astrid Noack’s Atelier) and On Behalf of The Animal Sound Society (Walking Landscapes, Metropolis, Københavns Internationale Teater). An interview about the project is featured on LYDKUNST PODCAST.
Maria has a BFA at The Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2015) as well as a background in
physics at Lund University.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, ,Copenhagen, Denmark, Herlev