The Oulu Art Museum is organizing listening sessions on sound art and electronic music in 2024-2025 in collaboration with the pioneer of sound art and electronic musician AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti).
The series, called kuu-tee listening sessions, introduce local and international artists working with sound four times a year. The sessions will culminate in an exhibition at the Oulu Art Museum in 2025. The themes of the 2024 sessions will emerge from dissonance, disagreement and discord.
The next listening session will take place at the Oulu Art Museum on Thursday 16 May, with internationally renowned Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist Jessica Ekomane as guest artist, who will perform a live set at the event.
Ekomane’s quadraphonic performances are grounded in questions such as the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics or the investigation of listening expectations and their societal roots. Her work has been extensively presented in festivals, venues, contemporary art spaces and museums across the world such as Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid.
AGF’s artistic work focuses on language, sound, listening and politics. Her work draws on feminist sound technologies and in 2020 AGF founded RECon (rec-on.org) with political sound and the activist community at its core. AGF has realised works at the Centre Pompidue in Paris, London ICA, as well as at the Southbank Centre. As a performing artist she has been performing at several venues, such as Ars Electronica in Linz and Sonar Festival in Barcelona. In Hailuoto, she launched Hai-Art in 2010, which produced public art and the Hailuoto iPad Orchestra for school children.
Listening sessions for all ages can be attended with a museum ticket. The language of the meetings is English. Informal interpretation is available in Finnish. Each session lasts 1.5 hours (16.30-18.00), after which there is an opportunity to enjoy a themed tea together.
Please pre-register for the event.
More information:
Curator Selina Väliheikki
selina.valiheikki@ouka.fi, +358 44 7037456
