12. – 24. 4. 2018 (opening: April 11 and April 17 at 6 p.m.)
curated by: Sara Pinheiro
WAVEGUIDES is a site-specific and site-responsive sound installation by Donia Jourabchi (BE) and Taufan ter Weel (NL) which facilitates different listening situations to explore our relative sense of space and situatedness. The installation employs the waveguides on-site, such as transmission lines, pipes and ventilation shafts, and works with the acoustic properties of the space at different positions by means of electroacoustic processes – such as transduction or conversion, amplification, transmission and recording. The exhibition opening will be followed by a public lecture by Taufan ter Weel (April 12, 6 p.m.) titled From Inner Ears to Other Spaces. The lecture will explore the notion of auditory and spatio-temporal situatedness in terms of waveguides and transmission media (reaching from inner ear to outer space – interconnecting bodies, machines and environments). It will discuss the relationships between social practices of listening, acoustic or electroacoustic architectures, and different conceptions of space and time. The duo will then lead a workshop which opens the exhibition to collaborations and interventions. These results will be shared with the public on April 17 at 6 p.m. during a second opening.
Program
11. 4. – Exhibition opening part 1 (with performance)
12.–16. 4. – Public lecture From Inner Ears to Other Spaces and the beginning of the workshop
17. 4. – Exhibition opening part 2 (with performance – outcome of the workshop)
22. 4. – Intervention by the live coding group k-o-l-e-k-t-i-v
Donia Jourabchi (BE) is a sound explorer of contextual relations between body and space within the materiality of sound — an experimental approach towards a spatial practice of sound by designing spatial and sonic trategies that can be potential mechanisms of engaging the social within the physical space. She was involved in numerous collaborations, such as sound system design, public interventions, experimental music, dance and choreography, electroacoustic sound techniques and improvisation, sound registration, spatial amplification, installations and compositions, self-made instruments, radiophonic art, and graphic design. Her works question situated knowledges manifested in the physicality of sound, reflecting on the social conditions in the context-dependent and community-based articulation of site-specificity.
Taufan ter Weel (NL) is an architect, sound artist and researcher with an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of sonic practice and socio-spatial research on urban problematics in relation to politico-economic processes. Besides carrying out collaborative and independent projects, he works as guest teacher (2014-present) at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture (Theory Chair), where he also received his master degree in architecture with honorable mention in 2009. He has worked as part-time instructor (2009-2012) and guest teacher (2013-2014) at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Built Environment department), where he earlier received his Bachelor degree in 2006. Furthermore, he worked as urban researcher (2009-2010) for Cohabitation Strategies in Rotterdam, and was artistic leader (2010-2012) and co-leader (2013-2014) of Blikopener Festival & Productions, a yearly theatre, performance and installation art festival in Delft. He performs live electronic music since 2001 and followed the Institute of Sonology’s one-year course program (2011-2012) at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.
