SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS

talks and workshops

during Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms

by Ami Clarke

 

MORE THAN HUMAN

SONIC RITUAL

with John D'Arcy and HIVE choir

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Saturday 6th June

workshop 5-7pm at Banner Repeater

performance 7.30pm

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rsvp here

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​​What does it mean to “meet the lough on its own terms”?

And what role do art and technology play in this?

 

Rituals have acted historically, as early technological interfaces, scoring human / nature relationships, in very particular ways. The work emphasises listening and sound, as practices that can de-centre the human, amongst the vulnerable ecologies of Lough Neagh and the watershed.

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Improvisational.

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The Sonic Ritual live jam performance brings together Clarke with John D’Arcy and HIVE choir, where performing live together proposes new ways of ‘being’ in the world ‘with other species’. Foregrounding considerations of how human voice/s in a polyphonic approach might sit within the delicate ensemble of a multi-species perspective, to reflect the new calibration we are hoping to bring about: a new symbiotic calibration of humans and nature, whilst furthering a paradigm shift to a microbial scale.

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EVO MICRO TECHNO

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We will discuss the impact of ‘sensing’ other forms of life, via Lynn Margulis’ work, that emphasises an emergent process, and suggests biochemical signalling as 'meaning making' between organism and environment, where cognition is reconfigured as ‘action based upon sensory information’. The expanded sense of meaning making decentres human intelligence amongst a multi-species perspective, introducing a more-than-human approach that is aware of the mediation of the various technologies necessary for the purposes of sensing eels, microbes, nutrients, and so on, via grapheme, hydrophones and nutrient data content, to name but a few examples.
 

ongoing:

The work is informed by a collective writing project and several sonic ritual jams and workshops, already held over the last 2.5 years. Drawing old technologies (traditional indigenous: Brehon, druidry, herbalism, permaculture) together with new technologies (sensors, hydrophones, AI) in a polyphonic approach, as a new technological interface recalibrating our relationship ‘within’ nature from a multi-species and inextricably queer perspective.  

You don't have to attended before.
Please join us for this iteration.

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Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms

closes 7th June

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