Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam. 

Founded in 1994 to present new developments in electronic and digital art forms, Sonic Acts has gained prominence with its biennial international festival — an intensive art, theory and technology gathering motivated by changes in the ecological, political, technological and social landscape. Sonic Acts is also a leading platform for international projects, research and the commissioning and co-production of new artworks, often working together with local and international partner organisations such as independent and institutional cultural incubators, universities and kindred festivals.

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Sonic Acts is looking for a new Operations Manager for 3 to 4 days a week. 

As Operations Manager you are at the heart of the organization. Together with the director, you will translate the strategy and policy of the organization into concrete operational objectives and you are responsible for their implementation. In collaboration with the team you will help coordinate the internal stucture of Sonic Acts and you are responsible for recruitment and selection, as well as other HR related matters. You are discreet, involved and approachable and a point of contact for both the management and colleagues regarding organizational issues.

The ideal candidate holds an interest in current developments in art and culture, has at least 2 years of relevant work experience in a cultural organization, lives in Amsterdam or the regional area, and writes and speaks well in both Dutch and English. 


→ [Apply now via Homerun before 2 July](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/operationeel-manager)

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Sonic Acts is seeking a new Operations Manager

Arie Altena

Philip Vermeulen

Tarek Atoui

Tomoko Sauvage

Alice Johnston-Rougeaux

Hannah Rowan 

 Anastasia Khodyreva

Annika Kappner

Brackish

Jac Common

Katy Lewis Hood

Lucia Dove

Éric La Casa 

Hannah Pezzack

Karen Bakker

Maud Seuntjens 

Rita Wong 

Stefanie Hessler

Therese Keogh

Now available to order, _Ecoes_ celebrates its fifth issue. Over the past decade, Sonic Acts’ ongoing interest and concern has been the climate emergency and the role and importance of art in the crisis. Expanding beyond the festival, a bi-annual art magazine, _Ecoes_ unpacks alternatives to the anthropocentric perspective that approaches the nonhuman as a resource. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, this magazine about ‘art in the age of pollution’ showcases compelling artistic and critical perspectives that engage with the past, future or afterlives of environmental harm, toxicity, extraction, and waste.

Cycles of water whirl through this body of texts. Sometimes they are heavy with ‘toxic muck’ and sometimes as light as bubbles, crystals of ice, or the hair on coral larvae. Occasionally they will speak to a feeling, but will often address a very specific port. Most importantly, all of them are the results of artists’ experiments and artistic meandering around the topic of water.

In her visual essay, **Annika Kappner** asks you to fill a bathtub, or chose another body of water, and join her on a journey of exploring your relationship with water. The director of the Swiss Institute in New York, **Stefanie Hessler**, discusses with **Hannah Pezzack** her three exhibitions and publications – _Tidalectics_, _Prospecting Ocean_ and _Sex Ecologies_ – and explains the ‘oceanic feeling’ that flows through her curatorial work with artists. Japanese-French artist **Tomoko Sauvage** talks to **Maud Seuntjens** about her fascination with bubbles and water clocks, clepsydras, as imagined in her new Sonic Acts' commissioned installation _Buloklok_ and other sound pieces. Dutch artist **Philip Vermeulen** discusses his two newer installations with **Arie Altena**; _Boem BOem_, a large environment with violently bouncing tennis balls, and the Sonic Acts' commission _More Moiré_, an immersive and disorienting light and sound installation that dissolves the borders between one’s inner and outer worlds.

Composer **Tarek Atoui** and field recordist **Éric La Casa** explore listening and sound recording within the harbours of cities such as Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Beirut, Istanbul and Porto, which they visited for Atoui’s project _Waters’ Witness_. Three ports along the river Thames play leading roles in **Jac Common** and **Katy Lewis Hood**’s dialogic experiment port motions. **Therese Keogh** is exploring an offshore dumping ground of dredged material, The Spoil Grounds, from the Port of Newcastle on Awabakal and Worimi Country on the east coast of Australia, the world’s largest coal export port.

**Alice Johnston Rougeaux** takes us to the Cloud Bar – a vantage point for watching clouds in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. In _Reef Lullaby_, a chapter from the book _The Sounds of Life_ (2022), **Karen Bakker** explores the ways coral reefs listen, explaining that coral larvae are able to sense sound through hairs (cilia) that coat their tiny bodies. **Lucia Dove** talks about three St. Elizabeth’s floods that happened in the early fifteenth century, in the Grote Waard, a farming region between South-Holland and Brabant that disappeared in one of the floods. **Hannah Rowan** and **Anastasia (A) Khodyreva** present an ongoing ice dialogue. In their performative essay, members of the **Brackish collective** filter, steep and boil their liquids while thinking about the historical origins of cooking, the cultural importance of certain ingredients, and the methods of bringing them to life in the collective’s live performances.





→ Available to order now for €7,50 from the [Sonic Acts webshop](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-5/)

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Ecoes magazine #5 out now

Sonic Acts is looking for an experienced Marketing and Communications Manager to join the Sonic Acts Biennial team for 3 or 4 days per week.

→ [Apply before 28 May 2023](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/communications-manager-2/en)

# About Sonic Acts
Sonic Acts is a leading platform for new developments in electronic and digital art forms. With an extensive year-round programme in the Netherlands and abroad, and a large-scale biennial throughout Amsterdam, Sonic Acts produces, presents and distributes a wide range of artistic works. The organisation strives for innovation and exceptional quality in all of its activities, while being a hub for an international network of creators, curators and critical thinkers. Based in Amsterdam, Sonic Acts works regularly with national and international partners – from kindred cultural organisations to academic institutions – such as Paradiso, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, OT301, University of Amsterdam, Sandberg Institute, Re-Imagine Europe, and many others.

# Job description & responsibilities
As Marketing and communications Manager for Sonic Acts, you will be a key part of the team responsible for communicating and promoting the Sonic Acts Biennial. The Biennial will take place in February and March of 2024 at various locations in Amsterdam such as Paradiso, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, W139 and others. You'll work on the visibility and reach of online and offline communication campaigns, managing relationships with media partners and audiences.

As Marketing and Communications Manager, you'll work on the following tasks: 

- Conceiving and executing on-topic campaigns and promotions with a strong sense of target groups;
- Establishing timelines and goals for communications, advertising, and PR and proactively maintaining these through media partnerships and relevant contacts;
- Managing marketing and communications budgets;
- Managing communication for individual projects or events from start to finish, across all channels – including the website, mailings, print and social media – CRM tools and ticketing systems;
- Translating the Sonic Acts programmes into accessible and engaging content, both written and audiovisual;
- Conducting market research and analysis, and advising the organisation on its positioning.

# About you
- You've completed higher education, preferably specialising in communication and marketing;
- You have at least 3 years of relevant work experience;
- Your communication and writing skills in English are proficient. Being well versed in Dutch is also preferred; 
- You have a strong affinity for audiovisual and contemporary visual art, avant-garde film, electronic music, experimental media and critical discourse; 
- You have a network in media, music, art and culture;
- Living in or readily able to travel to Amsterdam.

# What we offer
- A varied and challenging job for 3 or 4 days per week (in consultation);
- Starting date in consultation, until at least April 2024; 
- A salary between €2250 and €3585,-  gross per month based on full-time employment, depending on knowledge and experience, based on the guidelines of De Zaak Nu. Freelance is possible; 
- You're part of an ambitious team collaborating with international partners and artists on exciting programmes.

# Apply for the job
Sonic Acts endorses the Fair Practice Code and the Code of Cultural Diversity and is committed to improving the assortment of voices that make up the organisation. Applicants from all (cultural) backgrounds are therefore encouraged to apply. In a case of equal suitability, preference goes to the candidate that strengthens the diversity of the team.

Send your CV and motivation (in English) by 28 May 2023 via [Homerun](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/communications-manager-2/en). Portfolios may also be included in the pdf or as a link, but are not obligatory. For any questions, you can contact us via vacancies@sonicacts.com.

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Vacancy: Marketing & Communications Manager

[Sonic Acts Biennial 2022](https://sonicacts.com/discover/biennial2022) took place at various locations in Amsterdam, interweaving an exhibition, sound performances and discourse programme, accompanied by artist presentations, workshops, excursions and more. As a part of the Biennial programme, the _Leaving Traces_ symposium opened up a forum in which to become attentive to pollution’s invisible, yet harmful touch. Actively rethinking our relation to the climate and our planetary legacies, an array of artists, researchers, curators, and scholars spoke of the many faces of toxicity – from fossil fuels to plastic, from nuclear energy to chemical pollutants.

Bringing together real stories and events of exposure, the symposium posited the concept of ‘leaving traces’ not only as the spread of toxicity but also as art's potential to disrupt. In the newly released videos, leading thinkers in the environmental humanities – including researchers, artists, and musicians – delve into climate collapse and its impact on cartography, infrastructure and consumption, as well as the role of museums and art institutions in inspiring eco-activism.

The presentations run as follows:

- Nerea Calvillo: _Sensing Polluted Airs_ 
- Angeliki Balayannis: _Public Experiments in Chemical Regulation_
- Antonia Alampi: _‘Everywhere is a here, isn’t it?’ On Toxic Entanglements_
- Dani Admiss: _Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline_
- Mary Maggic: _Performing the Sublime Sea of Co-Mattering_
- Sophie Dyer, Sasha Engelmann (open-weather): _when we image the earth, we imagine another_ 
- Aura Satz: _The Future Waters of the Storm Surge_
- Thomas Lamers (Collectief Walden): _ISLAND_
- Mikki Stelder: _Maritime Imagination_
- Daphina Misiedjan: _The Right to Water_
- Maryam Monalisa Gharavi: _Dirt, Debt, Death, Data_
- Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Agnès Villette: _Transient Marshlands, Permanent Progress – Geographies of Uncertainty_
- Ola Hassanain: _Spatial Acts: Geographies of Absence and Waithood_
- Nishat Awan: _Atlas Otherwise_
- Kent Chan: _Five Stories on Heat_

Alongside the _Leaving Traces_ programme, find a whole host of further videos in our online archive, including documentation of the [Night Air](https://sonicacts.com/discover/night-air) programmes _Shock Waves_, _Melting Cores_, _Shifting Sands_ and _Breathing with Clouds_.

These include: 

- Elena Cohen – _Sonic Weapons and Policing: A New York City Case Study_
- María Edurne Zuazu – _Between Shouting and Shooting_
- Yann Leguay – _Technical Involution_
- Félix Blume – _Desierto_ 
- Michaela Büsse – _Granular Grammar_ 
- Jeff Diamanti – _Phosphate Futures: Body, Territory, Mutiny_
- Hannah Mevis – _Filtered Clouds_do not store in container_
- Mint Park – _Latent Amongst the Air_
- Louis Braddock Clarke & Zuzanna Zgierska – _Out of Focus_

Further uploads will follow in the coming weeks – stay tuned to the Sonic Acts YouTube channel for updates. In the meanwhile, we warmly encourage you to peruse our archive, which offers a window into past and ongoing innovations within the Sonic Acts community as well as commissioned works, collaborations and sites of exploration.

→ [Watch the recordings](https://www.youtube.com/@SonicActsFestival/videos)

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Leaving Traces symposium & Night Air talk recordings now online

Lance Laoyan

Sandipan Nath

Yeon Sung

Following an array of impressive and talented applications, Sonic Acts is delighted to welcome three new residents for the 2023 [Underexposed mentorship programme](https://sonicacts.com/discover/underexposed).



Underexposed is an online mentorship and training programme focused on supporting young, Netherlands-based artists during the early stages of their careers. Over the course of six weeks, artists will work directly with members of the Sonic Acts curatorial team in one-hour weekly online sessions where the team will provide feedback, support, and insights into the artist’s specific needs.

**Lance Laoyan** is a multidisciplinary designer, sound artist and environmentalist. He is a [FieldARTS 2022](https://sonicacts.com/agenda/field-arts-transitional-waters) resident and premiered his soundwalk [_Walking in the midst of it all_ ](https://sonicacts.com/biennial/biennial-2022/programme/lance-laoyan-soundwalk) at Sonic Acts Biennial 2022. Through the use of listening methodologies and recording technologies, for this year’s mentorship programme, Laoyan will develop his plans for the creation of a new electronic sounding instrument, to use in Dutch waterways.

For her proposed Underexposed project, artist-researcher **Yeon Sung** continues her inquiry into the material afterlives of French nuclear histories in the Sahara, using prototypal sensing tools to unearth the colonial toxic legacies encountered in radioactive dust particles. 

As a transdisciplinary artist and researcher, **Sandipan Nath** explores the poetic connections between human and nonhuman mineral life. For the mentorship programme, Nath will continue to build upon his collaborative project investigating the socio-cultural history and archival links between shells, teeth and bone.

These three finalists follow the [2022 Underexposed](https://sonicacts.com/discover/selections-underexposed-2022) artists **Anguille Vannamei** and **Erik Peters**, and **Angeliki Diakrousi** and **Yara Said**, who were selected to take part of the [first iteration of Underexposed](https://sonicacts.com/discover/selections-underexposed-2021) in 2021. You can explore interviews with all our past residents in the [Sonic Acts Discover archive](https://sonicacts.com/discover). 

 In the coming months, Sonic Acts will publish conversations with each new artist, offering a deeper look into their work, artistic influences and experiences. Stay tuned!

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Three new artists selected for Underexposed mentorship programme

Sonic Acts Biennial 2022

Minji Kim 

After being deeply impressed by the talent of many of the brilliant and thoughtful applications, Sonic Acts is proud to introduce the new artist-in-residence for this year’s [OVEREXPOSED](https://sonicacts.com/discover/overexposed) residency hosted in partnership with [The Lives of Deltas](https://urbaninterfaces.sites.uu.nl/the-lives-of-deltas-a-research-exchange-on-sustainability-and-the-imaginary-the-university-of-hong-kong-utrecht-university/).



**Minji Kim**, also known as Unknown Kim, is a researcher and sound artist based in The Hague and Seoul. She is a founder of the eco-acoustic sound artist initiative [Acoustic Territories](https://acousticterritories.com/) and a member of the artist duo Qoo-Teq. Kim’s practice investigates the relationship between human-designed infrastructure and coastal spaces, asking how sound and music might contribute to a better ecological environment.

From 20 April to 20 May 2023, Kim will expand her research into ecological sound as part of the Lives of Deltas, a collaborative study programme between Utrecht University’s Centre for Global Challenges and the University of Hong Kong. During this time she will develop a research log of the course’s findings, and work on creative projects alongside researchers and MA students in Utrecht. Together they will discuss texts, present their artistic practice and join in conversations on the central ecological and infrastructural themes explored within the study programme (land, water, waste, work, city, technology, senses, ….). Her own creative project in the context of the residency takes inspiration from the Zand Motor, an experimental anti-erosion pump-dredging system built on the southern coast of The Netherlands. Kim will develop a site-specific instrument in response to the Zand Motor’s mechanisms, creating a medium that can reveal the acoustic quality of these coastal infrastructures in real-time.


Stay tuned for further residency updates over the coming weeks!

_The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed is part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe co-funded by the European Union._

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Minji Kim selected 2023 OVEREXPOSED x Lives of Deltas resident

Sonic Acts is seeking a new Marketing & Communications intern for 4 days a week from October 2023 until the end of April 2024. 

As an intern you’ll be the right-hand of the communications team, giving you insight into the entire communications process as you participate in making the activities of Sonic Acts visible. In February 2024, the Sonic Acts Biennial will take place at various locations in Amsterdam and beyond like Paradiso, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and W139. The programme will include a conference, workshops, exhibitions, performance and club nights and much, much more. During your internship, you will mostly be working on this large-scale and exciting programme.

The ideal candidate is aware of current developments in arts and technology, adept in various social media platforms, writes fluently in English and lives in Amsterdam or the surrounding area. For any questions, please contact us via vacancies@sonicacts.com. 



[→ Find out more and apply via Homerun before 1 May](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/communications-intern-3/en)

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Internship: Marketing & Communications

Sonic Acts is looking for a new production intern for 4 days per week from October 2023 until the end of April 2024.

As production intern, you will be learning the ropes working alongside and assisting experienced producers and their colleagues. The Sonic Acts Biennial will take place in February of 2024 and most of your activities will be geared towards the realisation of this large-scale and exciting programme which includes an exhibition, conference, performance and club nights as well as workshops and other programmes at venues like Paradiso, W139, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and other locations.
 
The ideal candidate is aware of current developments in arts and technology and lives in Amsterdam or the surrounding area. Spoken and written English is required for this position and a written and verbal grasp of Dutch is also preferred. For any questions, please contact us via vacancies@sonicacts.com. 


[→ Find out more and apply via Homerun before 1 May](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/productie-stagiair-3/en)

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Internship: Production

Sonic Acts is looking for a freelance audiovisual content creator to assist the Marketing and Communications team with video and image editing, as well as desktop publishing.

As the team’s Audiovisual Content Creator, you work both independently and with other creatives to produce image and video materials for Sonic Acts’ various online channels, campaigns and events. You help develop and maintain the quality of Sonic Acts’ branding and visual identity. You are well informed about developments in art and culture, audience-oriented, familiar with trends and critical thinking. Above all, you are a skilled image and video editor with a sharp eye for detail.

Your responsibilties would include providing A/V materials for communication campaigns, events promotion and media publications across various online channels (social media, website, email, streaming platforms and more); promotional materials for publications and releases including books and magazines, records and merch; as well as DTP and image editing tasks, including document design for, amongst others, press releases and reports, newsletter design and presentations.

→ [Find out more & apply via Homerun before 9 April 2023](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/audiovisual-content-creator/en)

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Vacancy: Audiovisual Content Creator

Sonic Acts is delighted to invite applications for **Underexposed**, an online mentorship and training programme by Sonic Acts focused on supporting young artists based in the Netherlands. 

Since its conception, the Underexposed mentorship programme has supported artists across the Netherlands, including the successful mentorship of artists **Angeliki Diakrousi** and **Yara Said** in the [first round](https://sonicacts.com/discover/selections-underexposed-2021) of 2021, and **Erik Peters** and **Anguille Vannamei (Noam Youngrak Son and Sarah Fitterer)** in 2022 as a [second round](https://sonicacts.com/discover/selections-underexposed-2022). One artist will be selected for the 2023 iteration of the programme, which runs from 24 April to 2 June.


### About the mentorship programme

Over the course of the six-week mentorship and training programme, the selected candidate will work directly with members of the Sonic Acts curatorial team, taking part in one-hour weekly online sessions where the team will provide feedback, support, and insights into the artist’s specific needs. An in-depth conversation with the Underexposed resident will also be published in [_Ecoes_]((https://sonicacts.com/discover/ecoes)) magazine and promoted via our [website](https://www.sonicacts.com/discover/filter/longreads). 

### Applying and eligibility

Underexposed is intended for young artists, 22 to 32 years of age, based in the Netherlands. The programme is open to young makers, artists, and designers working with experimental sound or moving image, and with a strong interest in ecological issues, who have graduated from art academies or similar artistic programmes, or can demonstrate interest in the field with at least one year of experience. Currently enrolled students are not eligible for the programme, but students graduating in 2023 are welcome to apply. Applications from both individual artists and collectives are welcome.

Application texts should be in English and must include the following:
- Project plan or grant proposal that you would like to improve (max. 1,500 words), including a project budget for max. 40.000 EUR

- A motivation letter (max. 1,000 words) in which you provide the following information: give a short summary of the project including the current stage of development; outline your expectations of the Underexposed programme; the main challenges you face and what you need help with most

- Portfolio, including a short bio (bio max. 300 words, max. 10 MB)


### Deadlines and selection process

Applications should be submitted via [_Homerun_](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/underexposed-2023/en) by 3 April 2023 and the selected applicant will be notified by 17 April 2023. The selection committee comprises the curatorial team of Sonic Acts.


_For further enquiries please contact us at residency@sonicacts.com_




Underexposed

Applications open for Underexposed 2023 mentorship programme

Sonic Acts is looking for a new Head of Marketing & Communications for 4 days a week. 


As Head of Marketing & Communications, you will lead the communications team in the promotion of Sonic Acts' programming, working closely with programmers, producers and partner organisations to increase the visibility and reach of Sonic Acts' year-round activities, including the Sonic Acts Biennial planned for February 2024.

The ideal candidate possesses a wide awareness of current developments in art and culture, has at least 3 years of relevant work experience, and is able to communicate Sonic Acts’ diverse programmes in an innovative and inspiring way in English or Dutch.



→ [Apply now via Homerun before 17 March](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/hoofd-marketing-communicatie)

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Vacancy: Head of Marketing & Communications


Sonic Acts and the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe) invites applications for [**The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed**](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/the-lives-of-deltas-x-overexposed-residency-programme/en) residency programme on the theme of _**Pollution/ Pollination**_. Taking place from **20 April to 20 May 2023**, this fully-funded residency is a unique opportunity for Netherlands-based artists to expand their practice, develop new creative methodologies, and work on artistic assignments with a small group of MA students.

At the delta, the power of industrialisation, digitalisation, food precarity, sea level rise, volatile weather conditions and other consequences of global warming, can be felt like nowhere else. Formed by an array of powers (geological, meteorological, humanistic), these ‘critical zones’ – as Bruno Latour would call them – reveal differences, but also unexpected similarities. This year's artist-in-residence will respond to the key question underlying The Lives of Deltas programme, asking: how can ecological approaches to pollution and pollination re-frame interspecies networks in the contemporary urban delta?




### About the residency

One candidate will be selected based on the quality of their proposal made in response to the project. The artist in residence will participate in The Lives of Deltas study programme; present their artistic practice to attending students, tutors and scientists; and join in conversations on the central ecological and infrastructural themes explored within the programme. The project will culminate in the creation of short films produced by the programme’s MA students, during which the artist-in-residence will be invited to offer critique and guidance.

The artist-in-residence is expected to keep a weekly ‘research log’, documenting the programme in a medium of their choosing. The results of this log will appear in the periodic magazine [_Ecoes_](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-4/) and feature in Sonic Acts’ media channels such as Telegram. If applicable, the findings of this research may also be presented by the artist-in-residence as a part of future Sonic Acts events and collaborations.

### Practical information

The month-long residency occurs from 20 April to 20 May 2023, and takes place both online and in Utrecht. The resident will receive a total fee of €2,500 for the one month programme (2–3 days a week). All travel expenses within the Netherlands will be covered. The resident will also have access to a desk-based work space at the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges.

### Deadlines and selection process

Applications should be submitted via [Homerun](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/the-lives-of-deltas-x-overexposed-residency-programme/en) in English by 24 March 2023, and the selected applicant will be notified by 1 April. The selection committee comprises the curatorial team of Sonic Acts and [Dr. Rick Dolphijn](https://www.sonicacts.com/community/rick-dolphijn), Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University and an Honorary Associate Professor at Hong Kong University.



_For further enquiries please contact us at residency@sonicacts.com_

_The residency is part of a new collaboration between the transdisciplinary programme The Lives of Deltas – hosted by Utrecht University and Universities in Maputo, Rio de Janeiro, and Hong Kong – and Sonic Acts. The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed is part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe co-funded by the European Union._

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Selection Overexposed 2023

New collaboration between Lives of Deltas and OVEREXPOSED residency

We are thrilled to announce that Re-Imagine Europe has received support from the Creative Europe programme for its project _New Perspectives for Action_ which will commence in February 2023. 

_New Perspectives for Action_ is a four-year transnational co-creation and circulation project by Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration of fourteen interdisciplinary art organisations across Europe, and builds on the results of the previous Re-Imagine Europe project (2017–2021).

_New Perspectives for Action_ aims to equip and empower young Europeans through artistic practices to better withstand societal challenges triggered by rapid climate change. To achieve this aim, the project responds to the needs of artists, organisations and audiences.

Re-Imagine Europe is a collaboration between Sonic Acts and Paradiso (The Netherlands), Elevate Festival (Austria), INA GRM (France), A4 (Slovakia), Borealis (Norway), KONTEJNER (Croatia), BEK (Norway), RUPERT (Lithuania), Disruption Network Lab (Germany), Semibreve (Portugal), Parco d’Arte Vivente (Italy), Kontrapunkt (North Macedonia) and Radio Web MACBA (Spain).

_New Perspectives for Action_ is co-funded by the European Union.

→ [Find out more](re-imagine-europe.eu)

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Re-Imagine Europe

Re-Imagine Europe consortium receives new support

Lucky Dragons

Noam Youngrak Son

Sarah Fitterer

Erik Peters

Jeff Diamanti

Fred Carter

Inas Halabi

Marit Mihklepp

Miriam Matthiessen 

Samia Henni 

Shirin Sahabi

A new issue of [_Ecoes_](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-4/), Sonic Acts’ periodic magazine about art in the age of pollution, is out now. Looking into the materiality of oil, this fourth instalment contains interviews, critical essays, and poetry deconstructing meetings between bodies, matter and nature.

With a ‘feature well on oil’ that dives deep into the ‘petrocapitalist noxiousness’ of our time, _Ecoes_ tells the complex personal stories of artists and researchers, inspiring and transforming different perspectives of reality. The fourth edition interweaves works from Sonic Acts **[OVEREXPOSED](https://www.sonicacts.com/discover/overexposed)** residents with interviews from **[FieldARTS](https://www.fieldarts.net/)** 2022 participants and other creators and thinkers from our **[Underexposed](https://www.sonicacts.com/discover/underexposed)** mentorship scheme, all considering the composite ways toxicity can be buried, leaked, and unearthed across scales of daily life and deep time. From personal experiences of cancer treatment, caregiving and its aftereffects, to building relations with mounds, piles and heaps all around us; from the long-lasting impact of the 2002 MV Prestige oil spill off the coast of Galicia, to ecological colonialism covering destroyed Palestinian villages with Aleppo pine; from misused restoration of the seminal oil pool sculpture by Noriyuki Haraguchi, to poetry by Russian queer feminist poet Galina Rymbu that ‘historicises the chokehold on oil, gas, and grain supply, now crystallised in the invasion of Ukraine’. This issue of _Ecoes_ offers a powerful immersion into art during times of pain, toxicity, illness and crude capitalism.

Featuring contributions by **Anguille Vannamei – Noam Youngrak Son, Sarah Fitterer, Erik Peters, Fred Carter, Inas Halabi, Jeff Diamanti, Luke Fischbeck (lucky dragons), Marit Mihklepp, Miriam Matthiessen, Samia Henni, Sarah Rara (lucky dragons), Shirin Sabahi**
					
				



→ Available to order now for €7,50 from the [Sonic Acts webshop](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-4/)

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Erik Peters: Collaborative Worldbuilding

Ecoes #4 

Anguille Vannamei: Fertile Waters 

If There Is Nowhere to Hold on to, Root into Yourself and Grow from There

Ecoes issue #4 out now

Polina Medvedeva

Andreas Kühne

Taking place from 16 to 18 December 2022 in Almere, the workshop _When I Sound, I am Speaking – Als ik klink, dan spreek ik_ focuses on the sense of listening as a starting point for experimental sound creation. Together with artists **Polina Medvedeva** and **Andreas Kühne**, the participants are invited to explore soundscapes as as a space for self-expression beyond the conventions of music and language.

Following the framework of the Erasmus+ project _Sound Experiments – New Approaches to Non-formal Learning in Music_, the workshop is aimed at young people between 13 and 20 years old, investigating urban contexts with them from the perspective of sound. Organised in collaboration with Stichting de Vrolijkheid, _When I Sound, I am Speaking – Als ik klink, dan spreek ik_ provides participants with a first introduction to field recording, writing and recording text, and creating soundscapes. 


During the workshop, the participants experiment with capturing sounds in their surroundings, as well as recording their own voices and incorporating memories of sounds. Guided by the artists, they collect an archive of field and voice recordings in order to compose a sound piece.  Participants are encouraged to explore the margins of their surroundings and document their acoustic environment, using on-site objects as instruments, tapping into electromagnetic waves, capturing tactile vibrations, and foraging memories. 


Using field recordings, sound artist and composer Andreas Kühne creates electroacoustic music, collaborative audio-visual performances and interactive installations. Filmmaker and artist Polina Medvedeva researches the notion of informality, focusing on informal economies and non-conformist communal structures. Together they interrogate issues of decentralisation, collectivism and non-conformist ways of living in the digital age in the improvised audiovisual performance . 

A previous iteration of this workshop took place in April 2022. More information about the Erasmus+ project can be found [here](https://soundsweird.org/). 


_The workshop _When I Sound, I am Speaking – Als ik klink, dan spreek ik_ is commissioned in the context of the international project _Sound Experiments – New Approaches to Non-Formal Music Learning_. Developed by three international partners in three different cities, Bratislava (A4), Zagreb (KONTEJNER) and Amsterdam (Sonic Acts), the project is realised through the support of the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme._

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Workshop with Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne

_Ecoes #4_ is now available to preorder on special offer in the Sonic Acts webshop! The latest _Ecoes_ reimagines art in the age of pollution, critically reflecting on what it means to divert from an anthropocentric view of the Earth and non-human entities as infinite resources. 


Our [first issue](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes/) presented artistic perspectives on mining, microplastics and more. [_Ecoes #2_](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes2/) explored the terms and phrases used to express the complex experience of living in a polluted world. Our special Biennial edition, [the third issue of Ecoes](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes3/), engaged with the elemental forces, synthetic or natural, that create tension in the world around us, featuring contributions from **Dani Admiss**, **Aura Satz**, **MELT**, and **John Grzinich** among many others. 


_Ecoes #4_ features work questioning the troubling materiality of oil as both an active agent and product of history. Investigating the role of hydrocarbons in the Algerian decolonisation struggle; re-telling of the death of an oil tanker; critically intertwining the abolition of work and toxicity through poetry and workers’ strikes; tracing encounters of bodies and matter via oil pool sculptures; mapping extinct forms of communication through the tender kinships structures; tracing the slow violence of ecological colonialism as pine trees and natures reserves are erected on demolished Palestinian villages. Featuring poetic essays on water, sickness, protest, and deep-time, in this striking new edition _Ecoes_ brings together powerful encounters with ‘crude capitalism’, bodies and the natural environment.



This new installment welcomes writing, interviews and artwork by **Fred Carter**, **Jeff Diamanti**, **Inas Halabi**, **Samia Henni**, **lucky dragons** (**Luke Fischbeck** and **Sarah Rara**), **Miriam Matthiessen**, **Marit Mihklepp**, **Erik Peters**, **Shirin Sabahi**, **Anguille Vannamei**, and **Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou**. 

All issues of Ecoes are available to order now from the [Sonic Acts webshop](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product-category/publications/).


→ [Pre-order Ecoes #4](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-4/)

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Ecoes #4 now available for pre-order

Sasha Litvintseva

Beny Wagner

Sergey Kostyrko

Martin Bartlett

Lasting until 8 January, our Winter Sale offers discounts across many items in the [Sonic Acts Shop](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product-category/sale/). Recent publications, including all issues of _Ecoes_ magazine, _All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film_ by **Sasha Litvintseva** and **Beny Wagner**, and the Sonic Acts 25 anniversary collection _Hereafter_ will be available at a discounted price, as well as audio releases from **Andreas Kühne**, **Sergey Kostyrov**, and many more. To celebrate the forthcoming release of [_Ecoes #4_](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-4/), subscriptions to the magazine are also discounted by 25%. 



Whether assemblages of scientific and fictional taxonomies, or reflections on contemporary political and climate realities, Sonic Acts publications navigate the environmental humanities across an array of visual and textual mediums. Featuring essay collections, periodicals and artist books, our innovative releases highlight the complex entanglements encountered living within the climate crisis, critically and creatively imagining realities otherwise.

Opening a forum to contemplate technologies and entangled practices of pollution on a planetary scale, _Ecoes_ is a periodic magazine by Sonic Acts about art in the age of pollution. With its emphasis on the past, present, and future experiences of environmental harm, toxicity, and waste, the magazine continues Sonic Acts’ dedication to presenting artistic and critical perspectives on the rapidly changing world around us. All copies of _Ecoes #1, #2,_ and _#3_ are available in this special offer, and ongoing subscriptions to _Ecoes_ can be purchased [here](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product-category/subscriptions/) in a range of options for students, individuals, and institutions.  

Moreover, all Sonic Acts audio and vinyl releases are also on offer during this time. Commissioned by Sonic Acts as part of the Murmansk Prospekt, _Settlers_ by **Sergey Kostyrko** and _Transients I/O_ by **Andreas Kühne** present innovative artistic research and field recordings from the largest city above the Arctic Circle. Each release presents a vivid, complex portrait of a region in flux. The full range of releases can be found [here](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product-category/releases/), including live recordings of **CC Hennix + The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage** and **Martin Bartlett**. 

[**→ Explore the Winter Sale until 8 January**](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product-category/sale/)

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Winter Sale in the Sonic Acts Shop

pantea

Discussing the essay _‘Breaking the Silence: Language and the Making of Meaning in Plants’_ by Monica Gagliano and Mavra Grimonprez, multidisciplinary artist [**pantea**](https://www.instagram.com/pantearm/) considers the role of listening in her artistic practice, observing that “to me listening is not only about sounds but how you intercept that listening process for yourself.” In our latest episode of the Overexposed Podcast, made in collaboration with Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz speak with **pantea**, exploring topics of wetlands, Iranian rhythm traditions, the importance of slower artistic practices, and non-hierarchical approaches to the non-human.

→ [Listen to the Podcast](https://soundcloud.com/sonicacts/overexposed-podcast-listening-and-breaking-the-silence-with-pantea?in=sonicacts/sets/overexposed-podcast)


Recorded in the lead-up to Sonic Acts Biennial 2022, pantea talks about her collaboration with **Soundcamp**, leading a soundwalk titled _search for the ⬤_, and her audiovisual work _Fragile Fragments_ made with artists **u-matic & telematique**.

pantea is a multidisciplinary artist from Iran engaging with narratives of ecological and more-than-human connection. Her work has incorporated performance, creative nonfiction, film, photography, and music. More recently, pantea is focused on developing a socially engaged practice by exploring possibilities brought about by sound and listening. She is also one half of the design group **Studio Informal** and a member of **Khamoosh**, an artistic research group dedicated to preserving and archiving Iranian sonic heritage.

→ [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/pantearm/)


The [Overexposed Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/overexposed/id1567822680) can be found on preferred podcast platforms. 

**About OVEREXPOSED**  

Over the course of 2021 and 2022, Sonic Acts hosted two artistic researchers as part of their second OVEREXPOSED home-based residency programme, which addresses pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living.



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Overexposed Podcast with Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee featuring pantea

"Personal accounts of time and history seem both predictable and unexpected – as the rhythms slow down and speed up, ringing natural and unnatural, they parallel each other", writes Xenia Benivolski in her review of Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 for _The Wire_. Like many other texts written about the Biennial, reflections on temporality are central. 

This year's biennial was reviewed and written about in several media outlets, including the Dutch national newspaper _Het Parool_, multiple international magazines like _The Wire_ and _CRACK Magazine_, and online platforms including _AQNB_ and _CLOT Magazine_ among others. 


Expanding upon time in the form of slow ecological violence, Matt Dell of _AQNB_ writes of _one sun after another_: “The exhibition offers an interpretation of the cyclical nature of ecology and the interrelationships between events that happen at different points throughout history.” The review can be read in full [here](https://www.aqnb.com/2022/10/31/a-walk-through-time-reflecting-on-ecology-action-during-sonic-acts-biennial-exhibition-one-sun-after-another/). In a similar vein, _CLOT Magazine_’s Katazyna Jankovska describes the Biennial exhibition as a “journey between different temporalities” in her [review](https://www.clotmag.com/oped/toxic-geographies-and-nonhuman-temporalities-at-sonic-acts-2022-katazyna-jankovska). More thoughts and reflections can be found in Dutch magazine _[Metropolis M](https://www.metropolism.com/en/reviews/47887_sonic_acts_biennial_in_w139_een_kakofonie_van_hete_hangijzers)_ and newspaper _[Het Parool](https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/one-sun-after-another-toont-de-ecologische-teloorgang-van-onze-planeet~b82531db/)_. 



Xenia Benivolski’s review for _The Wire_ draws a connection between the exhibition and the sound art programme _Inner Ear(th)_, exploring nuclear anxiety, temporal volatility, and pollution through video, sound installations, and experimental performances. _Inner Ear(th)_ took place at the former munitions factory of Het HEM from 7 to 9 October, the weekend’s performances and installations attending to the complex histories of the site; its violent past, its surrounding forest, its cavernous walls and surrounding docklands. For reflections on the programme and its unique location, Anton Spice’s essay can be found [here](https://antonspice.substack.com/p/reflections-on-sonic-acts-festival?fbclid=PAAaaAZoDNR8S55zElc5KDgvIwqV91dyfsrkdRpJpiE9mCW_77Nlk7w-sf1rg): “Over the course of the weekend, there is a sense of promise and ruin to much of the work at Sonic Acts - pantea, u-matiq and telematiq’s speculative organisms adapting to toxic futures, Matthias Puech’s entropic landscape suite, Olivia Block’s interrogation of cetacean soundings and underwater noise pollution in Mexico’s Laguna San Ignacio.” 


→ Look back on the biennial via this photo selection from [CRACK Magazine](https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/in-photos-sonic-acts-biennial-2022/)

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Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 in the press

Fridaymilk

On 26 November 2022 artists **Polina Medvedeva** and **Andreas Kühne** presented _The Informals/Неформалы_, a Sonic Acts commission, at Baltic Circle Festival in Helsinki. Having first premiered as part of Sonic Acts Festival 2019, the work is an improvised audiovisual performance interrogating issues of decentralisation, collectivism, and non-conformist ways of living within modernity.



This partly autobiographical work blends live music and documentary film footage to chart the experiences of young 'digital natives' living in Murmansk. To escape the norms and constraints of northern Russia, young people gravitate to deserted areas, where they improvise with space and create new stories through their digital community and culture. The materials collected are played by the artists live, producing new unscripted versions with each performance. 


Baltic Circle is an international festival for contemporary theatre and performance organised annually in November in Helsinki. Baltic Circle believes in the aesthetic and affective powers of the arts, and in the potential of social and political agency of performance.  In its 19th edition, Baltic Circle took place from 18 to 26 November 2022 and was curated by **Fridaymilk**. 

Interested in hearing more from the artists? Andreas Kühne's recent release _Transients I/O_, which was commissioned by Sonic Acts and Fridaymilk as part of Murmansk Prospekt, is now available via our [Bandcamp page](https://sonicacts.bandcamp.com/music) and on our [webshop](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/vinyl-digital-download-andreas-kuhne-transients-i-o/).

→ More information on _The Informals/Неформалы_ by Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne can be found [here](http://bit.ly/3OmQhBy)

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The Informals/Неформалы presented at Baltic Circle Festival

Daphina Misiedjan

“Being able to adapt to climate change is now a privilege.” Researcher **Daphina Misiedjan** reflected on water as a fundamental right in her talk at Sonic Acts Biennial 2022’s Symposium _Leaving Traces_, presenting her work on access to water for vulnerable and marginalised communities. 

In a new interview with Down to Earth magazine, published on 17 October, she extends this conversation by discussing climate justice and its link to socio-economic inequality.  Misiedjan raises questions of power, rights for nature, as well as reparations and action for the Dutch Carribean and further afield. 



→ Read the interview in Dutch [here](https://downtoearthmagazine.nl/de-blinde-vlek-van-klimaatoplossingen/) or an English translation [here](https://arias.amsterdam/the-blind-spot-of-climate-solutions-an-interview-with-daphina-misiedjan/)

On the second day of the symposium, Misiedjan joined filmmaker Aura Satz, performer Thomas Lamers from Collectief Walden, with Annelinde Bruijs and Dominic Kraemer, and researcher Mikki Stelder as part of the panel Climate Imaginaries at Sea, co-curated with ARIAS. Each explored water as  a transformative being and way of being in the context of sea level rise.  All talks will soon be available to [watch](https://www.youtube.com/c/SonicActsFestival) or [listen](https://soundcloud.com/sonicacts) to online. 


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Daphina Misiedjan talks about climate justice and privilege

Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 attended to questions of non-linear time, entangled ecologies, and pollution through an expansive exhibition, a provocative sound art programme, and an interdisciplinary symposium. This slow immersion into the environmental humanities is reflected in the design of the Biennial T-shirts and tote bags, available now in the Sonic Acts webshop. 



[→ Buy your merchandise here](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product-category/merchandise/)

Additionally, the third issue of _Ecoes_ magazine corresponds to the explorations of toxicity taken up by the Sonic Acts Biennial 2022. _Ecoes_ #3 includes essays, stories, and interviews by biennial contributors including **Andrea Galano Toro**, **pantea**, **John Grzinich**, **Aura Satz**, **Antonia Alamp**i, and many more. _Ecoes_ #3 can be purchased individually, or as part of a subscription, through the [Sonic Acts webshop](https://shop.sonicacts.com/). 
