Sound of Existential Risk is a collaborative project currently in development. It is developed and created with acclaimed Australian artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey and Live Umbrella (Johanna Tuukkanen, Pekka Mäkinen, Maija Eränen).
Research residencies have taken place in Cambridge, UK (2017), Kuopio, Finland (2018), Hobart, Tasmania (2018) and Melbourne, Australia (2018). An installation of the series of works in development under the process of Sound of Existential Risk will be installed in the Arts House Melbourne in August 2018.
We will continue our process in the second half of 2018 and in 2019, including presentations both in Australia and Finland.
The work has been supported by Kone Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Regional Arts Council of North Savo and Wihurin rahasto.
We Contain Multitudes 30.8.-1.9.2018
Audio video work as part of the Refuge 2018 programme
1pm – 7pm, Thurs 30 Aug
1pm – 7pm, Fri 31 Aug
11am – 4pm, Sat 1 Sep
FREE
Arts House
North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry St,
North Melbourne
Australia
An audio exit poll that traces our dead, and their societies, and give us clues to the risk of the next anthropogenic disaster. An interdisciplinary sound work by artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, developed with Live Umbrella, Finland, We Contain Multitudes asks the unreliable oracle of cloud-space to mediate between remembrance and forgetting; between noisy narratives and the silent infrastructure of disease control; between viruses, bacteria and the intersectional phages. A citizen survey canvasses who is grievable, who receives the vaccine, and how greater inclusivity can inform our future risks.
Sound of Existential Risk Project, Johanna Tuukkanen, Tim Humphrey, Maija Eränen & Madeleine Flynn. Photography @ Pekka Mäkinen.
Supported by – We Contain Multitudes has been developed through a residency at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, and the Melbourne General Cemetery, through the Southern Metro Cemeteries Trust; and is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the Kone Foundation; the Arts Promotion Centre Finland; and the City of Melbourne through Arts House.