Sprint3_Week7#Additional Work: Day 3 suggested reading
I gained knowledge from three perspectives in today’s reading. Additionally, I’ll display them in three separate sections of this portfolio.
PART 01: Echo in the Dark
In this part, I’ll clarify my point about the artist Hanna Tuulikki’s website. On the top of her website, we can see the link about her artwork – echo in the dark 2022.
At its core is a set of electronic dance music tracks created in collaboration with music producer Tommy Perman, composed entirely of bat echolocation calls fused with the human voice. For the first time as a live event, Echo in the Dark was realised as a series of silent ‘bat romps’, experienced with studio quality closed-ear headphones and enhanced by choreography, animation, lighting and lasers.
From the suggested reading, Blue Kirkhope finds a hopeful sense of collectivism at Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman’s ‘bat rave’ in Arbroath. This event made people think, which part is the performance of Echo In The Dark? While each part deserves to be its own piece, bringing these components together for this special event allows them to encourage viewers to reflect on their relationship with the non-human; a powerful performance in itself. As our bodies dance in sync, there is a hopeful sense of collectivism, as if our movement is a collective act of activism against the climate crisis. It is this kind of thinking that we must take and implement in our daily lives; acknowledging that we are an intrinsic part of nature, woven into one thread. “Echo in the Dark” is more than a brief experience that ends when the music stops: it shows a new way of being in the world. Awareness, optimism and learning ecology. We must continue to dance to the rhythm of coexistence.
When you wake up, take these memories of the night.” It has that nice mixture of seeming shallowness and ambiguous depth that dance lyrics sometimes achieve, and it speaks, softly, to Tuulikki’s aims for the event: “I can’t dictate how anyone should feel or behave, but what I’d like to create is a space for people to feel hope for the future.”
PART 02: Pre-fieldtrip research
Before our Basho’s trip, I watched a video from Lisa Williams and read the essay from Sheikh, S, which made me start to consider about the role of urban observatories. It also made me reflect the history or Edinburgh, even the whole Europe. Historical observations from the City Observatory on Calton Hill reshape how we see and relate to the world around us. There, astronomers observe and calculate accurate time, help ships docked at Leith navigate and connect Edinburgh to the world. This is also where artist Robert Barker created the concept of “panoramas”, extending the field of painting and the horizon.
In addition, through Towards A City Observatory: Constellations of art, collaboration and locality, the city’s observatory is a metaphorical symbol with a “panoramic view”, the observatory is the starting point of the link, the crossing between ancient and modern Edinburgh, and the gateway through which history connects Edinburgh to the world, which was a concept from Robert Barker. As a result, as listeners, we bring this connection into our interaction with Calton Hill. We have made an effort to think and listen Calton Hill in a “panoramic” manner. In a specific relationship that entangles the viewer with the world, and the classification and ordering of things.
PART 03: Basho Group Assignment
We first got this map through the website of James N Hutchinson, whose initial research focused around astronomers associated with Calton Hill. He quickly became interested in asides or footnotes to astronomers’ stories rather than the dominant popular narrative. We planned a recording scheme of our journey according to his map.
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