brings together researchers and artists to explore how sound articulates experiences of loss. We first gathered in 2024 through a workshop in Leiden. Working on sites ranging from the Marshall Islands to China and Japan, our members seek to share, compare and rethink the implications of sonic loss, with a particular attention to questions of presence, participation, responsibility and representation.
Renate Schelwald is a visual anthropologist from the Netherlands with a background in psychology and film. She completed her MA in Visual Ethnography in 2019 with her film "In the Arms of the Ocean" showcased at various film festivals. She continued with an MA in Clinical Psychology, working as practising psychologist for a year until she returned to anthropology, doing ethnographic research on an international research project concerning community engagement in flood risks. Schelwald started her PhD in 2022 at Erasmus University, studying food practices and sustainability in the foodscape using audio-visual and co-creative methodologies. She is currently doing fieldwork in Aotearoa New Zealand, focussing on the way that communities come together around food, and our (dis)connection to where food comes from, using a relational, Māori theoretical framework.
I am a documentary filmmaker interested in practices that explore relations of proximity with the filmed subjects. As a film workshop facilitator, I have been looking for experimental techniques that liberate our perception from automatism, such as estrangement, where camera and sound recording devices help to understand and engage with the worlds beyond the film frame. I’m trained in African Studies (University of Warsaw) and Visual Anthropology (Sound/Image/Culture in Brussels). I have been working also as a film curator, namely for the Riga Pasaules Film Festival screening ethnographic and experimental films. In my current research project at the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, through an interdisciplinary perspective combining ecosemiotics, ethnography and art-based methods, I explore non- symbolic knowledge of plants and animals in Maarja küla, an Estonian supported living facility for neurodivergent adults.
Kali Spitzer is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) on her father’s side and Jewish from Transylvania, Romania on her mother’s side. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting.
Richard Wilson is a Coast Salish DJ, filmmaker, firefighter, and ball player. Richard and his family have a deep history of connection to Galiano Island and the waters of the Salish Sea.
Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene) is a Storyteller, writer, filmmaker. Rosemary has spent her lifetime reconnecting with her Coast Salish ancestry and family and is now working to share and celebrate the reconnection of family and strong Coast Salish women from around the Salish Sea.
Jessica Hallenbeck is a critical intersectional feminist geographer and filmmaker (Lantern Films) whose work brings together decolonial methodologies, the archive, and research-creation to represence connections to / with water.
Kate Hennessy is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology, and director of the Making Culture Lab. Her research creation, curatorial, and art practice explores the impacts of new memory infrastructures and cultural practices of media, museums, and archives.
I am a social anthropologist working on the intersection of digital technologies, ageing, and wellbeing. I am a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Christ Church, University of Oxford. My book, Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: care in a visual digital age, will be out in August 2024 (UCL Press). It provides a critical overview of later life in Japan in the context of an ageing society, internal migration, and the uptake of the smartphone.
I am currently conducting fieldwork in Finland, looking at how older adults craft spaces of wellbeing both on- and offline. My work centres graphic methods, including participatory drawing and mapping, to understand the affective dimensions of wellbeing.
Delphine and Elodie Chevalme, aka les sœurs Chevalme, are a duo of visual artists based in Saint-Denis, France, who have been developing a multidisciplinary practice for nearly fifteen years. Their work focuses on social and identity issues, post-colonial research, history in general and cultural migration in particular.
They have exhibited in France and abroad, at major events on the contemporary scene: Season Africa2020, Palais de la Porte Dorée (Paris, France), Les rencontres photographiques d'Arles, Art Paris Art Fair, Drawing Now Art Fair, Paréidolie, Norton Museum of Art (Palm Beach, USA), Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and many sites of the cultural network of the Institut Français (Brazzaville, Cotonou, Kinshasa, Yaoundé) and recently at the Musée Théodore Monod (Dakar, Senegal).
Emilie Guitard is an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). For the past fifteen years, she has been documenting and examining relations with nature in a number of cities in sub-Saharan Africa. From the political dimension of waste management in two medium-sized cities in Cameroon, through perceptions of environmental changes among inhabitants of the mining town of Hwange in Zimbabwe, to knowledge about and attachments to plants in Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, she combines ethnographic research, methods from ethnoscience and artistic collaboration during fieldwork. Her aim is to apprehend local knowledge about urban biodiversity, the role of nature in defining urban identities and the place given to plants in municipal governance in the era of the 'sustainable city' from varied African perspectives.
Obáyomí A. Anthony is a photographer, filmmaker and documentary visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria. He documents and presents stories from Nigerian society and culture, addressing issues of social justice and cultural preservation. Through his work, he aims to offer alternative perspectives and inspire tolerant exchanges between different individuals and communities. He is a National Geographic Explorer and Storyteller and won the National Geographic Portofolio Award at the LagosPhoto Festival in 2017 and the inaugural Taurus Award for Visual Arts in 2019. His work has been shown at the National Geographic Story Tellers Summit, BredaPhoto festival, LagosPhoto Festival, Dance Gathering Lagos, The Project Space-Johannesburg, Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, as well as at the African Artists Foundation and Alliance Française Lagos.
Ferran Lega Lladós, sound artist and Doctor in Fine Arts, currently works as a lecturer at the University of Lleida, on the degree in digital design and creative technologies. He is part of a generation of artists working on the relationships between sound, art, science and technology. His work is influenced by scientific reference systems to respond to the capacity of sound to generate images using the acoustic science of cymatics. His projects and installations always approach sound as a listening process in relation to nature and physical phenomena of the environment, exploring interspecies relationships. After his participation in important exhibitions in institutions such as the Botín Foundation, Sala d'art Jove, La Fundación Tàpies, CMMAS México, Centre d'arts Santa Mònica, Eufònic, CCCB or Centre d'art La Capella, Ferran Lega's works have been shown in extensive solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
brings together researchers and artists to explore how sound articulates experiences of loss. We first gathered in 2024 through a workshop in Leiden. Working on sites ranging from the Marshall Islands to China and Japan, our members seek to share, compare and rethink the implications of sonic loss, with a particular attention to questions of presence, participation, responsibility and representation.
Renate Schelwald is a visual anthropologist from the Netherlands with a background in psychology and film. She completed her MA in Visual Ethnography in 2019 with her film "In the Arms of the Ocean" showcased at various film festivals. She continued with an MA in Clinical Psychology, working as practising psychologist for a year until she returned to anthropology, doing ethnographic research on an international research project concerning community engagement in flood risks. Schelwald started her PhD in 2022 at Erasmus University, studying food practices and sustainability in the foodscape using audio-visual and co-creative methodologies. She is currently doing fieldwork in Aotearoa New Zealand, focussing on the way that communities come together around food, and our (dis)connection to where food comes from, using a relational, Māori theoretical framework.
I am a documentary filmmaker interested in practices that explore relations of proximity with the filmed subjects. As a film workshop facilitator, I have been looking for experimental techniques that liberate our perception from automatism, such as estrangement, where camera and sound recording devices help to understand and engage with the worlds beyond the film frame. I’m trained in African Studies (University of Warsaw) and Visual Anthropology (Sound/Image/Culture in Brussels). I have been working also as a film curator, namely for the Riga Pasaules Film Festival screening ethnographic and experimental films. In my current research project at the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, through an interdisciplinary perspective combining ecosemiotics, ethnography and art-based methods, I explore non- symbolic knowledge of plants and animals in Maarja küla, an Estonian supported living facility for neurodivergent adults.
Kali Spitzer is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) on her father’s side and Jewish from Transylvania, Romania on her mother’s side. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting.
Richard Wilson is a Coast Salish DJ, filmmaker, firefighter, and ball player. Richard and his family have a deep history of connection to Galiano Island and the waters of the Salish Sea.
Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene) is a Storyteller, writer, filmmaker. Rosemary has spent her lifetime reconnecting with her Coast Salish ancestry and family and is now working to share and celebrate the reconnection of family and strong Coast Salish women from around the Salish Sea.
Jessica Hallenbeck is a critical intersectional feminist geographer and filmmaker (Lantern Films) whose work brings together decolonial methodologies, the archive, and research-creation to represence connections to / with water.
Kate Hennessy is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology, and director of the Making Culture Lab. Her research creation, curatorial, and art practice explores the impacts of new memory infrastructures and cultural practices of media, museums, and archives.
I am a social anthropologist working on the intersection of digital technologies, ageing, and wellbeing. I am a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Christ Church, University of Oxford. My book, Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: care in a visual digital age, will be out in August 2024 (UCL Press). It provides a critical overview of later life in Japan in the context of an ageing society, internal migration, and the uptake of the smartphone.
I am currently conducting fieldwork in Finland, looking at how older adults craft spaces of wellbeing both on- and offline. My work centres graphic methods, including participatory drawing and mapping, to understand the affective dimensions of wellbeing.
Delphine and Elodie Chevalme, aka les sœurs Chevalme, are a duo of visual artists based in Saint-Denis, France, who have been developing a multidisciplinary practice for nearly fifteen years. Their work focuses on social and identity issues, post-colonial research, history in general and cultural migration in particular.
They have exhibited in France and abroad, at major events on the contemporary scene: Season Africa2020, Palais de la Porte Dorée (Paris, France), Les rencontres photographiques d'Arles, Art Paris Art Fair, Drawing Now Art Fair, Paréidolie, Norton Museum of Art (Palm Beach, USA), Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and many sites of the cultural network of the Institut Français (Brazzaville, Cotonou, Kinshasa, Yaoundé) and recently at the Musée Théodore Monod (Dakar, Senegal).
Emilie Guitard is an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). For the past fifteen years, she has been documenting and examining relations with nature in a number of cities in sub-Saharan Africa. From the political dimension of waste management in two medium-sized cities in Cameroon, through perceptions of environmental changes among inhabitants of the mining town of Hwange in Zimbabwe, to knowledge about and attachments to plants in Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, she combines ethnographic research, methods from ethnoscience and artistic collaboration during fieldwork. Her aim is to apprehend local knowledge about urban biodiversity, the role of nature in defining urban identities and the place given to plants in municipal governance in the era of the 'sustainable city' from varied African perspectives.
Obáyomí A. Anthony is a photographer, filmmaker and documentary visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria. He documents and presents stories from Nigerian society and culture, addressing issues of social justice and cultural preservation. Through his work, he aims to offer alternative perspectives and inspire tolerant exchanges between different individuals and communities. He is a National Geographic Explorer and Storyteller and won the National Geographic Portofolio Award at the LagosPhoto Festival in 2017 and the inaugural Taurus Award for Visual Arts in 2019. His work has been shown at the National Geographic Story Tellers Summit, BredaPhoto festival, LagosPhoto Festival, Dance Gathering Lagos, The Project Space-Johannesburg, Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, as well as at the African Artists Foundation and Alliance Française Lagos.
Ferran Lega Lladós, sound artist and Doctor in Fine Arts, currently works as a lecturer at the University of Lleida, on the degree in digital design and creative technologies. He is part of a generation of artists working on the relationships between sound, art, science and technology. His work is influenced by scientific reference systems to respond to the capacity of sound to generate images using the acoustic science of cymatics. His projects and installations always approach sound as a listening process in relation to nature and physical phenomena of the environment, exploring interspecies relationships. After his participation in important exhibitions in institutions such as the Botín Foundation, Sala d'art Jove, La Fundación Tàpies, CMMAS México, Centre d'arts Santa Mònica, Eufònic, CCCB or Centre d'art La Capella, Ferran Lega's works have been shown in extensive solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
