Sound installation with headphones, beach chair and start button. 18 minutes.
Producedd
Text and voice: Lisa Nyberg, sound and mixing: Julia Giertz, programming: Terje Östling
The work deals with unsettling and de-centering by the means of meditation. A voice guides the listener through an awareness exercise, where one’s body is soaked into the sea, and the rhythm of one’s body is disrupted by a call from the deep. There is an element of ”soft cohesion”, a persuasiveness of the voice, guiding the listener to dispossess of the current reality, falling into another rhythm, to be possessed and unsettled. In the process there is also space for negotiation and resistance. This work was produced for the Research Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2017 and is site specific to Venice. It addresses the unstable foundation of the city and the troubled Mediterranean sea.