An evening of performances, listening sessions and screenings in collaboration with Art Explora, TBA21 and LAS Art Foundation.

The event was part of the “Ocean Weekend”, presented by the Art Explora Foundation and dedicated to the oceanic climate emergency, carried out in collaboration with UNOC, TBA21, LAS and UNESCO. Through panels between artists, researchers and scientists, open to the public, discussions will address issues linked to sea level rise, the aridity line, climate emergency, blue education.

Watery Thoughts | Radio Amnion and Josèfa Ntjam

Talk by Jol Thoms (Radio Amnion) and sound transmission by Josèfa Ntjam. In January 2022, Radio Amnion’s sonic platform transmitted artist Josèfa Ntjam’s audio invocation Watery Thoughts to the abyssal waters of the Pacific Ocean. In this talk, Jol Thoms discusses what it means to speak to and through the water, followed by a listening session of Ntjam’s sound work.

PROGRAM

6:30 - 7:15pm - THIS IS NOT A DRILL | Latai Taumoepeau

Performance choreographed by Latai Taumoepeau and performed by local sports teams and community groups.

7:30 - 8:30pm - Cetaceans | Alex Cecchetti

Performance by Alex Cecchetti with the cristalist Catherine Brisset and 8 singers. The concert/performance is conceived to accompany the public along a whole sleep cycle of one hour and a half, exploring dreams, dizziness, time lapses and lucid dreams, as states in which a different form of communication is produced. The music score is a hybrid composition in which music notation of choirs, holy music, poems and patterns of whale voices have been arranged together, intertwined, mixed and merged.

8:45 - 9:45pm - Watery Thoughts | Radio Amnion e Josèfa Ntjam

Talk by Jol Thoms (Radio Amnion) and sound transmission by Josèfa Ntjam. In January 2022, Radio Amnion’s sonic platform transmitted artist Josèfa Ntjam’s audio invocation Watery Thoughts to the abyssal waters of the Pacific Ocean. In this talk, Jol Thoms discusses what it means to speak to and through the water, followed by a listening session of Ntjam’s sound work.

10 - 10:30pm - Other Aspects of Reality | Androula Kafa

Live audiovisual performance that responds to the archive of Dimas Efthyvoulos (1924–2011), a Cypriot photographer whose practice sought to vindicate the animistic insights of Peruvian mestizo shamanism by capturing the spirits of the Amazonian rainforest.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38296