Ecology, Site and Place – Piteå Performing Arts Biennial 2020
Piteå Performing Arts Biennial during Covid 19
Piteå Performing Arts Biennial seeks new formats for the performing arts to engage in societal issues. The first edition—postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic—focuses on ecological perspectives, and further seeks engagement in questions related to site and place. On October 26-27, an online pre event presents some perspectives on how the performing arts address these issues in the time of the pandemic. Particular focus is given to digital presence, as discussed in three panels in the third edition of Physically Distant. While the biennial will host a series of new productions of ecological sound art, site-specific arts projects, dance and theatre productions, intermedia arts projects, film and video screenings, the pre event presents three concerts with telematic performance, a live radio show and a series of shorter streamed performances, as well as fixed media artwork on the website.
Registration
Participation in the conference is free, but registration is compulsory. Register by sending an email to piteabiennial@gmail.com
Links to streaming of concert performances will be found by each concert event in the program below.
Monday 26 October
12:15 Welcome and introduction. Stefan Östersjö.
12:30-13:45 Ecology of Perception
Markus Tullberg: 4E Cognition and musical instruments
Hubert Gendron-Blais: Music, Ecology and Affective Communities On Some Emergent Techniques of Résonances manifestes
Per-Anders Nilsson & Palle Dahlstedt: Electroacoustic Modular Ecosystem
13:45-14:00 Break
14:00-17:15 Ecological perspectives on Sound Art
14:00 Nikki Sheth: Sounds of Mmabolela(see further in the Listening Room)
14:30 Sabine Vogel: Recorded Landscapes #1
15:00 Bennett Hogg: ”Over the Hills and Far Away”: Towards One Possible Approach to the Decolonialisation of How We Talk About Experimental Art Practice.
15:30 Halla Stefansdottir: HÉR: Of curation in the act
16:00-16:15 Break
16:15 Anders Hultqvist, Jan Berg & Stefan Östersjö: Invisible Sounds: ecological approaches to nature, culture and technology
16:45 Jacek Smolicki: Soundwalking through Inaudible Cities. Peripheral Soundscapes of Stockholm and Beyond
17:15-17:30 Break
Physically Distant #3: the network, the pandemic, and telematic performance
17:30 Introduction. Stefan Östersjö and Federico Visi
17:40 Simon Waters & Paul Stapleton: Musicking online: your technical problem is actually a social problem. A performative conversation.
18:00-19:00 Panel I. Instrumentality in Networked Performance
Panelists: Henrik Von Coler, Juan Parra, Franziska Schroeder, Nicholas Brown, Nela Brown
19:00-19:45 TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE #1 – STREAM
A concert hall organ in the network. (Live-streaming from Studio Acusticum)
Telematic performances with the University Organ remotely controlled from several locations.
Scott Wilson, live coding, Birmingham (UK)
Mattias Petersson, live-coding, Piteå (SE)
Robert Ek, clarinet, Piteå (SE)
Stefan Östersjö, electric guitar, Stockholm (SE)
Federico Visi, electronics, electric guitar, Berlin (DE)
19:45-20:00 Break
20:00-21:00 Panel II. Network ecology: Communities of practice for the digital arts
Panelists: Shelly Knotts, Scott Wilson, Rebekah Wilson, Thor Magnusson, Mattias Petersson
Tuesday 27 October
13:00-14:30 Sound Art in Urban Spaces
13:00-13:30 Marcel Cobussen: Rethinking the Role of Sound Artists in Urban Ecologies
13:30-14:00 Georgios Varoutsos: Peace Wall Belfast: Spatial Audio Representation of Divided Spaces and Soundwalks
14:00-14:30 Katt Hernandez: Ephemeral worlds: The Transposition of Space onto Place (see further in the Listening Room)
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45 Anders Lind and Cat Hope: pre concert talk
15:00-15:45 TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE #2 – STREAM
A collaboration between composers/researchers Anders Lind [SE], Cat Hope [AU] and musicians from the three ensembles Norrbotten Neo [SE], Mise-EN ensemble [US] and Decibel New Music Ensemble [AU].
Embracing Distance (2020) by Anders Lind for clarinets, percussion, bass flute, percussion, trombone, piano
Interference (2020) by Robert Ek for clarinet and electronics
The Rupture Exists (2020) by Cat Hope for clarinets, percussion, bass flute, percussion, trombone, piano
Robert Ek, clarinets, Norrbotten NEO (SE)
Daniel Saur, percussion, Norrbotten NEO (SE)
Cat Hope, bass flute, Decibel New Music Ensemble (AU)
Louise Devenish, percussion, Decibel New Music Ensemble (AU)
Yumi Suehiro, piano, Mise-EN ensemble (US)
Mark Broschinsky, trombone, Mise-EN ensemble (US)
15:45-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 LECTURE-TRANSMISSION Kate Donovan & Gabi Schaffner: Site & Signal. Radio Art Ecologies
streaming address: https://frbb.out.airtime.pro/frbb_a
or http://fr-bb.org
Also broadcasting on 88.4 FM in Berlin, and 90.7 FM in Potsdam, Germany.
17:30-17:45 Break
Physically Distant #3: the network, the pandemic, and telematic performance
17:45-18:00 Marcin Pączkowski: Rehearsing music online: possibilities and limitations
18:00-19:00 Panel III. The network as place
Panelists: Luca Turchet Roger Mills, Chicks on Speed (Alex Murray-Leslie, Melissa Logan), Ximena Alarcon Diaz,
Angela Rawlings/Halla Stefansdottir/David Brynjar, Maja Jantar, Marcin Paczkowski
19:00-19:30 TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE #3 – STREAM
‘iða’ (Icelandic) summons constant movement and ocean eddies through telematic performance of bodies proximal to the North Atlantic, Pacific Oceans and the Baltic Sea.
Live-stream whirlpool: improvised voice, violin, and prepared sounds, mediated by real-time score as collective composition.
Maja Jantar, performer and composer of visual score, Ghent (BE),
angela rawlings, performer and composer of visual score, Reykjavík (IS),
Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, performer and composer of visual score, Malmö (SE)
David Brynjar Franzson, technical concept and streaming, Los Angeles (US)
19:30-20:00 Break
20:00-21:00 Where do we go from here? (plenary discussion)
For more information, please contact: Prof. Stefan Östersjö, LTU, piteabiennial@gmail.com