Walking In the Midst of It All

How can we communicate with the environment? What might surface if we submerge ourselves in the sonic environment and listen to the otherwise ‘unwanted’ sounds that dominate the surroundings? Inspired by the mediations of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Pauline Oliveros and the listening cultures of the Blackfoot Peoples of Montana, USA, sound artist Lance Laoyan will take you on a listening intervention through the industrial landscapes of Het HEM and into the historical and ecologically maintained ‘Vijfhoekpark’. The soundwalk aims to broaden the participants’ listening capabilities to pay attention to what is usually ignored. Taking place each day at a different moment, participants will experience the duality of the natural and unnatural in the city’s periphery.

90’ (2022)