o n l y w h e n y o u ' r e n a m e l e s s
multi-channel installation, acoustic ecology. icelandic field-trip soundmap, summer 2012. from reykjavik up through stykkishólmur, breiðafjörður bay and around the vestfirðir, & conversation excerpts with my travelling companion and her 3 year old daughter, and with the philosopher Ólafur Páll Jónsson, concerning the relationship between human beings and nature.
the project wonders whether the act of listening can enhance our chances of re-identifying the teleology of nature's aesthetic, and reveal the real properties of the world and our own nature to be more complexly bound than our manner of consumption and categorisation admits. (in doing so, we might nurture a more sophisticated relationship with nature and therefore ourselves, and begin to step up from purpose-led and consequently forever-dissatisfied culture, where nature itself tends to be identified in terms of what it can do for us. instead we might celebrate and reside in the now (despite the fact that the now is tricky, because it's always over).)
the project wonders whether the act of listening can enhance our chances of re-identifying the teleology of nature's aesthetic, and reveal the real properties of the world and our own nature to be more complexly bound than our manner of consumption and categorisation admits. (in doing so, we might nurture a more sophisticated relationship with nature and therefore ourselves, and begin to step up from purpose-led and consequently forever-dissatisfied culture, where nature itself tends to be identified in terms of what it can do for us. instead we might celebrate and reside in the now (despite the fact that the now is tricky, because it's always over).)