Open call for this year's research residency, tracing infrastructures and sediments of empire along the Clyde river corridor:
infrastructurehumanities.gla…
Join us for a week of collective fieldwork taking place 26-30 August between the Isle of Cumbrae and the shipyards of Govan.
Performing ‘About the North Sea’ live at Maritime Frictions last May, artist duo Velma Spell channel the body of water through sound archives including stories, interviews, and field recordings. Listen to the full recording on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/iCF8i@FieldARTS_
Last month me and @miriammthsn got to record a conversation with top logistics comrade @CharmaineSChua for @SonicActs — it was a joy, and now it's live! We talk about organising (on land and on sea), time, and the strange economy of shipping. youtube.com/watch?v=YYnUcg8s…
ALT Miriam Matthiessen, Jacob Bolton and Charmaine Chua sat at a fancy wooden table in a room with a bunch of plants, recorded in Ruisgoord, Amsterdam
What a festival of critical #logistics tonight at the artist village Ruigoord, enclosed by the @PortofAmsterdam and a stone's throw away from the world's biggest gasoline terminal.
Keynote by the relentless @CharmaineSChua: Logistics in past & present aims at taming the unruly.
Doing this in Amsterdam on May 19 - with lots of comrades in a squatted church in the middle of the Port of Amsterdam’s petroleumhaven. What a dream. Tickets below 👇
Upcoming confluence of FieldARTS-adjacent friends in Sweden this December, looking at practice-based methods in the context of grounded research traditions & struggles for environmental justice.
Cfp: regenerative-energy-communit…
Our closing event is tonight in Central Amsterdam! We're slightly sunburnt, our notebooks are full of sand, & our methods are distinctly brackish.
Join us from 5pm for screenings, talks, & drinks at the Doelenzaal room at the Singel Library.
Details at fieldarts.net/roundtable
On Friday 8 July, we are delighted to join @FieldARTS_ for an evening of arts & research on the political ecologies of Amsterdam’s transitional waters. Featuring artist interventions and speakers from Field Academy Oceans as Archives. Find out more: bit.ly/3Nkb5rd
We’ve had an immersive and turbulent two days on Texel Island, tasting and testing the brackish waters of seaweed cultivation @NIOZnieuws sea research centre.
Now off the ferry and headed to IJmuiden and the Port of Amsterdam!
For FieldARTS 2022 @lance_laoyan wants to explore the boundaries of positioning, where he would place himself into and listen in the space of these natural beings; to be subjected by anthropogenic noises.
This Friday 8 July, @FieldARTS_ screens ~~~~ (2021) by Sami Hammana – a film in 4 acts that observes the complicity of contemporary maritime technology and colonial violence. Accompanied by a roundtable discussion with Sonic Acts: sonicacts.com/agenda
We're excited to reveal #SonicActs Biennial 2022! Staged at various locations in #Amsterdam throughout October, it interweaves exhibitions, performances, lectures, sound installations, artist presentations, workshops & more. Tickets & programme info → bit.ly/3OFYi4a
ALT sonic acts biennial 2022 exhibition sound art symposium amsterdam 30 september to 23 october
Next Wednesday, Esmee Geerken will give a public lecture on shells, geochemistry, & artistic research as part of the FieldARTS programme @NIOZnieuws on Texel Island.
If you're in the area, come by from 10.30-11.30am at NIOZ in Den Hoorn! More info at fieldarts.net/lecture
In her talk, Esmee will revisit her time on the island of Texel, and various other islands, when she was researching the geochemistry of microscopic shells, both in the lab and in the field.