Footnote centre for Image and Text will take part in this year's Sounds Like a Book residency programme in Șona, Romania.
(S)pace Residency
Sounds Like a Book is excited to announce the launch of the 6th edition of the residency programme entitled (S)pace, taking place between the 10th until 25th of September, 2024 in Șona, Brașov county, Romania. The residency supports the artistic research, the experiment and the interdisciplinary focus in the artistic practices of emerging artists. This year’s broad theme is SPACE, opening the artistic research and production towards the cultural, socio-political and environmental layers and towards a vision that goes beyond the opposing pair space-place.
Introducing the theme
This year’s edition calls for various corporeal angles and rhythms to research the network body-space-sound as it unfolds in the process of listening. Sliding through various species of spaces, textures and bodily postures, the material conditions and the ways we inhabit a space reveal themselves as factors shaping our sonic perception and experience of space. The sonic content carries information and clues about the place one enters, exits or lingers in. What kind of data flows through the spaces of Șona, and what do we find out about the village when we explore it through sound? What information do the locals’ stories contain about the spaces of Șona and what images do they build about the present and the near future of the village? Employing the sound walk and deep listening to approach the space in a slowed down rhythm leads to a widening of the sensorial field and the perceptive limits while approaching a rural area that hosts this yearly event.
Structure
The residency program consists of 3 workshops: 1 thematic introductory workshop in 2 chapters, 1 sound art workshop, 1 self-publishing workshop. Alongside these main 3 activities, the residency will host 1 lecture about experiments in self-publishing and contemporary art and as well, spontaneous sonic improvisation sessions.
The introductory workshop in 2 parts will focus on exploring in performative and alternative ways the sonic and architectural scapes of the village. Stardust Architects and the sound artists Andreea Vlăduț and Cyrill Lim will conceive and hold the activities.
The Sound Art Workshop, coordinated by Lukas Jakob Löcker, will introduce key sound art concepts and tools useful in the research and working process. During the Self-Publishing Design Workshop, held by the Graphomat design studio, the artists in residency will develop the visual aspect for the sound material, employing suitable concepts and tools in the fields of self-publishing.
Alongside the workshops, the residency will host a lecture on experimental self-publishing and contemporary art held by Mia Ćuk, part of Footnote Belgrade, an independent studio located in Belgrade, Serbia.
Coordinators
Graphomat is an interdisciplinary design studio based in Bucharest, created by Andreea Popescu, Mihai Popescu and Andra Pavel.
graphomat.ro
Lukas Jakob Löcker multimedia artist, is currently conducting his artistic research on sound system culture and musique concrète & acousmatique.
Andreea Vlăduț multimedia artist, graduated from Time-based Media – Kunstuniversität Linz, where she specialized in electronic music, audio-video installations, and performance art.
andreeavladut.com
Cyrill Lim is an artist and composer active in Zug (Switzerland) and Berlin (Germany). His artistic projects lie at the intersection of music, art, theater and research.
klangkunst.ch
Stardust Architects
Anca Nechita-Cioarec and Brîndușa Tudor co-founded Stardust Architects together in 2011. Their interests focus on questioning the current forms of architectural education, practice and dissemination, formulating and testing alternative ways.
stardustarchitects.com
Footnote Center for Image and Text is an independent studio located in Belgrade, Serbia, concerned with generating a space for experiment, research and production in the field of visual art and publishing.
footnotecentre.org