Language
engNotes
This response to the Covid-19 lockdown was a renewed interest in the backyard fruit trees and the re-installation of a vegetable garden behind the backyard studio. A sustained view into a migrant garden of fruit trees and vegetables is resurrected. The migrant moves in-between, so does my practice. What made this response so re-assuring? This do-it-yourself (DIY) response connects to my image and sound manipulation strategies through its time-lapse surveillance and documentation, all a fluid home-grown, DIY creative practice. Media theorist Vilem Flusser talks of the freedom of the migrant, who experiences the in-between of migration directly on her body rather than fleetingly on the surface of a computer screen.Research statement
Background
Media theorist Vilem Flusser talks of the freedom of the migrant, who experiences the in-between of migration directly on her body rather than fleetingly on the surface of a computer screen. The researcher uses this theorisation in order to understand the way Covid-19 imposes its rhythms onto our bodies through technology, lockdown, and restricting inhabited space over long periods of time. What is the impact of isolation on the body? How can this be expressed visually and sonically in a compacted form? How to set up a grounding dialogue with nature, cross and express the in between?
Contribution
Covid Backyard is a video and essay that explores the acoustic space of the backyard: the in-between of the migrant body frames the in-between of the home-grown, DIY gardening and film practice.
The researcher set up a ritual of recording that created a grounding dialogue with nature as a way to experience and express the lock-down temporality and the in-between sense of the experience. Human-sensed-time is anchored aurally, allowing a calm to the eye to investigate what changed time is revealing. The investigation documents the up and down attention of trees and plants and displays that each moment of the day maps how these rhythms are intertwined. It is revealed how these rhythms relate to breathing through the rhythm of birdsong. Speeding up the image brings to the surface shadow and light’s relation of the suburban backyard’s acoustic space. Sound expresses this in-between that seeps, like water, through everything.
Significance
Sonic Field is a bilingual, interdisciplinary network around listening and sound, covering both arts and studies. This is a cutting edge publication where young people are looking into sound, and where a dialogic blog manifested as a way to further this frontier.Publication classification
JO1 Original Creative Works – Visual Art WorkScale
NTRO MinorExtent
Video with accompanying contextualising Essay.
Sonic Field is an bilingual, interdisciplinary network around listening and sound, covering both arts and studies.
Founded in Colombia in 2016 by merging previous projects by Miguel Isaza (Sonic Terrain, infinite grain) and David Vélez (The Field Reporter).
Cultivated by a nomadic editorial team, publising creative commons 4.0 content since 2010.Publisher
Sonicfield.orgPlace of publication
[Online]
