[white line drawing of a swan on a purple background. image courtesy of air conditions. plus photos from the happenings]
air conditions
5 — 7 december 2024
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thursday 5. december
16:00—19:00
mingling and conversation with warm food
friday 6. december
12:00—16:00
open for drop in
16:00—19:00
collective listening session with warm food**
saturday 7. december
14:00—17:00
workshop with carol stampone**
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**limited capacity
air conditions is an annual event curated by william kudahl & lasse høgenhof that aims to give attention to air. air conditions uses radio as a collaborative tool for building social and cultural connections over distance, between people and their communities. each year it establishes a collaboration “on air” in both its meanings: on the expanded topic of air and its current conditions, but also by taking place in the space of the radio, literally moving through air.
air conditions 2024 comes straight from skaftfell in seyðisfjörður, iceland to aerial, with newly commissioned sound pieces from inger wold lund, jenny berger myhre, mariana murcia, oceanfloor group, signe lidèn and william kudahl.
aerial welcomes you to experience these sound pieces in slightly different ways over three days with:
an opening with conversation, a collective listening session and a workshop with carol stampone.
INGER WOLD LUND is an artist and writer based in Berlin. She has written two full length books and several chapbooks in her native Norwegian published by Cappelen Damm, Flamme Forlag and H//O//F. A collection of her stories in English has been published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Lund is educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts; Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm; and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main. For the exhibition, she has written a series of breathing exercises taking the point of departure from the material imagination of words and the shape they take in, and between, bodies.
JENNY BERGER MYHRE is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, video and photography. Her work explores and exposes the personal in an honest and curious manner. Her music is created from field recordings, fragments of melodies, computer generated sequences, modular synths and lo-fi electronics — resulting in soundscapes with references to both the electro-acoustic tradition as well as experimental pop music. She seeks to remove the expectations of virtuous musical gestures by focusing on the sounds in themselves, and the mental images they produce in us, inspired by listening as a relational act — a way to connect to the world and to other beings. Bergers music piece, composed for this exhibition, is a slow, sonic wandering through various formations of clouds, a slow falling and a soft landing in and out of immaterial conditions.
MARIANA MURCIA is an artist and a swimmer. Assuming a performative attitude she often works in collaboration with water, temperature and other people. Based on her experience dealing with the limits and superpositions between her body and the environments she inhabits, she's constantly wondering, if what's in front of me is unfamiliar from my standing perspective, how can I reverse this relation by being unfamiliar to the presence of what there is? Her video is anticipating a sound correspondence with any listener. A beginning of a telematic movement that aims conversation without verbal language. In collaboration with Alphorn players, the text that goes with the images tells the story of a deep sound made to communicate at long distances. Out of sight, but in touch. To make a call to the non human. To breath empathy out and into the other.
OCEANFLOOR GROUP is a collaboration between Aoife Coleman, Ellem Skovhøj, Lasse Høgenhof. A sentient artistic ecology working through correspondence, gatherings, communal archiving and gifting - within the fields of composition, installation, writing, radio, performance, film and collaborative image production. Their contribution for Air Conditions mimics and fabulates a somatic and magical transition towards entering a swan(s) world. Through a crown of audio sonnets, they move through layers of ontology and the aerial exchanges swirling through these layers, morphing and moulding the elasticity of seperation.
SIGNE LIDÉN is an artist based in Oslo. Her work explores relations between place, sensing and sound. Through field recording, instrument-building and conversations, she approaches place as a dynamic becoming produced by geological, biological and atmospheric processes, as well as social and economic relations. Her work spans sound installations, video and performance to more documentary forms such as sound essays and archives. For Air Conditions, Lidén has created an audio essay that imagines and investigates rhythms of the earth; the rhythm of earth tides, global waves; rhythmical relations between the local and the global, the earth and the body.
WILLIAM KUDAHL is an artist and writer working mainly in sound. His work often explores the peripheries and margins of everyday life, influenced by what George Perec would call the Infra ordinary; things that might pass by unnoticed, things that are not events in themselves, but rather before, after or beside. For Air Conditions he has composed a sound piece with recordings from the organ in Seyðisfjarðarkirkja, the local church, investigating the organ as an instrument and the simplicity of single notes; their wordless messages and their impact on the body; the organs seemingly endless breath, the resonances and waves it emits.
This project is supported by Kulturådet.