Andreas Kühne, Research Fellow, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, UiB University of Bergen
Video still: Polina Medvedeva
keywords: field improvisation, sound, situated ethics, practice-based research, holism
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My artistic research proposes field improvisation as a non-idiomatic collaborative gesture to reflect on the relational affects between human and more-than-human beings and the environment. It engages with industrial and agricultural spills of urbanism and nation states in Northern Sápmi / Norway and investigates their impact from a holistic perspective. With capitalism and industrial scale resource extraction, organised spaces such as homes, concert halls, produced things, and even our own bodies, have the tendency of being regarded as separate entities from the natural environment, neither situated nor part of the field. The provocative use of the word ‘field’ suggests my impetus towards a proposal for a critical pedagogy and practice-based embodied ethics in institutionalised forms of conservation, creation and dissemination. As a sound artist I practise field improvisation as a form of field recording that explores the potential for interaction with things and place to shape sound. Similar to instruments, they produce and reverberate sounds that contain textures, timbres, pitch and speak of its materiality and space. The situation overrules expectations and demands immediate humbleness and intimate responses. Who/what is sounding who/what? Field improvisation rehearses our attentiveness towards the entanglements and responsibilities of the actor beyond the ontological nature-culture-material divide by engaging through touch and tenderness while leaving space for instances that don't involve recording. This paper presentation is aimed to open up a dialogue on how we could practise, rehearse, improve and express this attentiveness towards ourselves, instruments and spaces for music.
Photo: Robin Alysha Clemens
Andreas Kühne (b. 1988) is a Dutch sound artist, composer, and drummer involved in making electroacoustic music, collaborative audiovisual performances and interactive installations from an interest in listening positionalities and improvisation.
Andreas is a PhD fellow in electronic music and music technology at the Musikkonservatoriet, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He completed his BA jazz drums at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and MFA in free improvisation at ArtEZ University of Arts.
Kühne’s work has been exhibited and performed at The Arctic University Museum (NO), Tromsø Kunstforening (NO), Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Lofoten International Art Festival (NO), Sonic Acts Festival (NL), HYBRID Biennale (DE), Baltic Circle Festival (FI), Inversia Festival (RU), Lighthouse (UK).