Short Description
“Sonic Confession“, deepening our exploration of collective creation through a self-directed annual art and research lab at the Torhaus Wehlen Gallery in Germany’s Saxon Switzerland National Park area. Building on last year’s inquiries, we will further shape and experiment with existing and emerging approaches, practices, and the intersections between local culture, nature and evolving technologies. With a continued emphasis on Correlated Complementarity, this year’s lab maintains its focus on sensory perception and the ability to hear, an encounter of listening practices.
While sound remains central, we do not intend to exclude other forms of perception, instead encouraging a broader dialogue on how different modes of experience interact and inform one another.
Our intention is to incorporate inner and outer relations into our laboratory, meaning, within our own group, and connect it to the multiplicity of the cultural environment in which we settle.
Moreover, one of the aspects of the laboratory is the emphasis on the actual act of exchange and learning together about the field of Acoustic Ecology.
Through ecomusicology, we explore the relationships between sound and the natural environment. By doing and experiencing one forms a memory, encoded within the body. Weaving together different angles and practices of field recording, listening, and music/sound making, we encounter a philosophical question: what is music and what is sound and where is a border between. Can we bring together traditions of herbalism, folklore and new thought processes and disembodied entities and technology?
For this years edition, we are inviting enthusiasts to take part in exploration of possibilities of ways of communication, beyond sound based entities and spaces. Everyone with whom such streams resonate, and who is interested.
Concept of laboratory, structure, and place
Within the nonhierarchical structure of collective organization, we aim to create a space where one can share, learn, and exchange beyond the old hierarchical modes, spectrally and in multiple layers of existence and psyché. In the place of residency, we practice collective cooking, shared activities in exchange-based knowledge setups, and regular channeling circles, where we update on each process, mood, upcoming ideas, rand ealizations. Part of the laboratory is a one day–one night public event where we share outcomes and work in progress from the laboratory.
In this year, there will be the following workshops and lectures, in which participants of the laboratory can take part.
- Field recording and listening practice
- Sound cartography
- Hydrophones and underwater sound perception
- Silent day
- Somatic practice, body work
- History and field exploration
- Becoming an alpaca workshop
- Stone Licking Workshop (on connectivity of geographical belonging)
and more.
How to Apply
> Pick 3 questions and reply to them in any way, form, or medium you feel to.
> Please generate 3 questions to us in written English.
By doing so, you agree that your questions will be documented and published on our website, as the initial contact space for the “feedback loops” between other applicants, the collective, and wider viewers, you can choose to publish your questions anonymously. These questions will contribute to the on-going open-(re)source of our exploration and experimentation during and after this year’s laboratory.
> Select 1-3 of your works that respond to our thematic direction that you wish to share with us in any formats– pdf, jpeg, video link, audio link, webpage.
> Personal website or portfolio that presents your previous experiences.
> Please put the required information in one PDF file and send to: outininoutinoutoutin@gmail.com
Program Benefits & Awards
As a private initiative, the financing of this artist residency programme is dependent
on the support of public institutions. For this reason, we have submitted
applications for financial support, the results we expect in June 2025.
With a positive funding decision, we intend to offer the following conditions:
– A travel cost share (limited to bus or train)
– A possible mini grant (depending on the grant results)
– Vegan/Vegetarian food
– Shared sleeping spaces, with shower, kitchen, and working studios, basic
construction tools
Entry Fee
None
Location
Stadt Wehlen, Germany
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 14 June 2025
Website Link: https://oiioiooi.xyz/open-call-sonic-confession/
