As the start of the
16th International Architecture Exhibition de la Biennale di Venezia 2018 is fast approaching and as part of
Freespace, the
Lithuanian pavilion begins its activities with The Swamp Radio workshops and with the opening on
May 25th of
The Swamp School.
THE SWAMP RADIO PROGRAM
The opening week of the Swamp School with the Swamp Radio will engage the audience in acoustic space explorations from radio experiments, to environmental sound recordings, immersiveness of sound, and data sonification. The ability for sound to provide a multitude of sensory engagements with the physical world is one of the reasons why sound is valued as a perceptual and phenomenological experience. The result of the deterritorialization of sound from its location, the re-assemblage is useful in that it causes listeners to question their relationship to place and strengthens sonic sensibilities. This series of sonic engagement with the environment in Venice will explore the range of invisible architecture from transmission to radio, and to
“antenna as a central element of spatial self- reproduction”.
The workshops will gather together a number of artists from around the globe under the Pavilion of Lithuania guidance:
Nicole L'Huillier, architect and sound artist MIT Media Lab (Chile);
Jana Winderen, sound artist (Norway); Sonic Commons by
Sam Auinger, sound artist (Austria), PM Sensory Perception by
Petteri Nissunen & Tommi Grönlund, sound artist and architects (Finland), Geostories by
DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy) architects MIT (USA / Lebanon);
Sam Auinger, sound artist (Austria);
Francisco Lopez (Spain);
Rasa Smite y Raitis Smits, media artists (Latvia),
Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, architect and sound artist, MIT (Peru) and others.
The Pavilion of Lithuania is curated by
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (
Urbonas Studio), commisioned by
Pippo Ciorra.
“Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.” – Henry David Thoreau
