Name: ArtScience Encounters: Jana Winderen Live
Start: 2026-06-05T19:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-06-05T19:45:00+08:00
Location: ArtScience Museum

ArtScience Encounters: Jana Winderen Live

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲
𝟱 𝗝𝘂𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝗙𝗿𝗶), 𝟳𝗽𝗺 – 𝟳.𝟰𝟱𝗽𝗺
𝗢𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝘀, 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝟮
𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Oslo-based Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen activates ArtScience Museum’s Oculus as a resonant body attuned to the acoustic life of the ocean in a live performance.
Working at the intersection of art and scientific inquiry, Winderen draws on her background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology to access and render audible complex sonic ecologies. Using hydrophones, she records entire underwater environments: the crackle of crustaceans, the interactions of fish, and the vocalisations of marine mammals. These recordings, often captured in remote and extreme conditions, are sculpted through processes of close listening and spatial composition.
For this live presentation, Winderen mobilises this sonic archive within the architectural conditions of the Oculus, composing across its 360-degree system to produce a dynamic field of listening. Sounds that originate in ultrasonic ranges are transposed into an audible spectrum, allowing audiences to encounter otherwise imperceptible modes of communication. The performance does not simply reveal hidden worlds, but reconfigures the listener’s position within them.
At the same time, Winderen’s work foregrounds the fragility of these ecosystems. Human-generated noise permeates the oceans at an unprecedented scale, disrupting the sensory and communicative capacities of marine life. Within her compositions, these pressures are felt — as interference, saturation and the subtle erosion of acoustic space. Listening becomes an ethical act, attuning us to the far-reaching consequences of human activity across interconnected environments.
The performance invites audiences to inhabit the Oculus as a situated listening chamber that considers the relational dynamics between bodies, technologies and ecologies, and opens onto the ocean as an evolving, contested acoustic commons.

*Please note that the programme is presented in an uncovered outdoor area. In the event of inclement weather, the performance may be delayed, stop-started or cancelled if it is deemed unsafe for the artist, crew and attendees.

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆
Jana Winderen is an artist based in Norway with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology. Her practice pays particular attention to audio environments and to creatures which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally — deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear. Her activities include site-specific and spatial audio installations and concerts, which have been exhibited and performed internationally in major institutions and public spaces.
Winderen’s recent work includes The River at Jerwood Gallery, Natural History Museum, London, Absent Voices, Haus der Kunst, Munich, The Art of Listening: Underwater at Lenfest Center for the Arts, Colombia University, New York, Listening through the Dead Zones for IHME, Helsinki, The Art of Listening: Underwater for Audemar Piguet at Art Basel, Miami, Rising Tide at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Listening with Carp for Now is the Time in Wuzhen, Through the Bones for Thailand Art Biennale in Krabi, bára for TBA21_Academy, Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone for Sonic Acts, Dive in Park Avenue Tunnel in New York and Ultrafield for MoMA, New York.
In 2011 Winderen won the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica for Digital Musics & Sound Art. She releases her audio-visual work on Touch (UK).