28. January - 20. February 2025

Exhibition at Hämärä Gallery, Rovaniemi, Lapin Yliopisto, University of Lapland campus

With Alex Arteaga, Angela Bartram, Jaana Erkkilä-Hill, Petri Kuljuntausta, and Jan Schacher

The exhibition brings together four different intersecting and overlapping positions by the artist-researchers. Collecting insights, processes, traces and collaborative explorations, the works are centred around the central topics of relation to sound and environment, co-existence in shared and transferred experiences with the Other.

Alex Arteaga: Aural aesthetic research_Rovaniemi - An invitation to practice
This research cell proposes to inquire into Rovaniemi as an environment (or a meshwork of environments) through aesthetic aural practices. These practices consist of organized sets of actions of listening and, principally, hearing to be performed on specific spots throughout the city, in a deepened and intensified relationship with the present surroundings. The invitation issued here is to practice some predefined aesthetic aural practices individually and most relevantly, collectively. For the individual practice some "scores" (indications describing how to proceed) will be made available; for the shared practice two "collective and experimental research frameworks" guided by Alex Arteaga will be offered.

Angela Bartram and Jaana Erkkilä-Hill: Voicing the Other (2025)
The two artists aim to create shared spaces of experience inspired by interaction between species. Voicing the Other combines words, sound, moving and stagnant images. The work was created in close collaboration between two artist-researchers for this exhibition. Bartram is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Derby and invited as a guest to participate in this exhibition.

Petri Kuljuntausta: Imaginary Birdscapes (2025)
This work is a dive into the possibilities of interspecies interaction. The work is based on recordings in nature, combining the sounds of birds and the environment with sound worlds created by the musician.

Jan Schacher: Traversing landscape (2025)
Steps, breath, and pulse are the central elements propelling this piece forward. Light, movement, and instability characterise the image. The piece develops on the basis of the documentary video, collected during a hike with an artistic-research group. The focus is shifted towards the auditory and physical dimensions of personal experience, evoking an intense connection with the environment while moving. Musical processes of resonance and transformation serve to reinforce the auditory domain. In consequence, a shared exploration of landscape combined with a raw, contingent, and subjective trace collection gets fixed and transformed into the mediated format of this audio-visual piece.