Sound is an interesting thing. Sounds can evoke emotions like happiness, anxiety, hope, and calmness. But what I find most interesting is how sound can evoke memories. One of my first memories of sound is my Mum playing the organ at church, laying down on the wooden pew and feeling bass in my whole body. Strong memories of family, connection and childhood – all from sound. In the latest episode of sustain, we are talking with Monica Sand – an artist and researcher based in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Monica has a long history of working with sounds and space. And most recently a project in Gothenburg exploring art, buildings, and human bodies as carriers of cultural memory. Today we chat about sound, memory, art, science, buildings, and bodies.
Bio
Monica Sand, artist and researcher with a PhD in artistic research, from the School of Architecture, KTH, Stockholm. Sand holds a position as Research Adviser at the Artistic Faculty, and affiliated researcher at the Academy of Music and Drama, at Gothenburg University. From 2011 until 2019 she was coordinating research at ArkDes, Stockholm. At KTH and during a postdoc at Konstfack (University College of Arts Crafts andDesign, Stockholm) she produced courses, walk-shops and lectures based on art and artistic research projects with a focus on collective actions in public space. Earlier art work took place in collaborations with different physics laboratories in Sweden and at CERN, the largest particle laboratory in Europe, Geneva: In between art and science and Acting Physics
Links
Playing the Space https://playingthespace.wordpress.com/
Matter Matters – Art, Buildings and Human Bodies as Carriers of Cultural Memory
https://playingthespace.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/en-bage-genom-tiden/
Matter Matters Sound Archive by Louisa Palmi https://palmi.org/The-Sound-Archive
Important message to the public, VMA: https://soundcloud.com/lur_arkdes/sarafranceschi-elegi-short
Forest Improvisations in the Uppsala Cathedral:
City Experiments with students in an exhibition hall: Färgfabriken
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