Weathergods

Kathy Hinde I Mikhail Karikis I Sonoscopia I Vincent Martial

16–21 September 2023
Free

Showings and tickets

Saturday, 16/09

12:00–19:00
Deichman Tøyen, Klosterenga park and Cinemateket
Free

Sunday, 17/09

12:00–19:00
Deichman Tøyen, Klosterenga park and Cinemateket
Free

NB: Cinemateket opens at 13:00.

Monday, 18/09

12:00–19:00
Deichman Tøyen, Klosterenga park and Cinemateket
Free

Tuesday, 19/09

12:00–19:00
Deichman Tøyen, Klosterenga park and Cinemateket
Free

Wednesday, 20/09

12:00–19:00
Deichman Tøyen, Klosterenga park and Cinemateket
Free

Thursday, 21/09

12:00–19:00
Deichman Tøyen, Klosterenga park and Cinemateket
Free

Humans worshipped the gods of weather but now have the godlike power to control and distort it. In this sound art exhibition and performances curated by the Portuguese researcher and sound art curator Raquel Castro, the climate emergency is in focus. Weathergods urges us to change our perception of the environment and our place within it.

Program

Henrique Fernandes and Gustavo Costa / Sonoscopia, Vincent Martial: Liquid Aesthesia #4
Filmenshus/Cinemateket September 16-21
(Check Cinemateket's website for opening hours)
Live performance 16/9, 15.00

In Liquid Aesthesia #4, Vincent Martial and artists from the Sonoscopia collective incorporate watery sounds and mechanical air pumps and heaters. In the installation and accompanying performance, they unveil the physical processes that occur to water as a catalyst of profound social and environmental transformations.

Mikhail Karikis: Weather Orchestra
Deichman Tøyen
(Check the library's website for opening hours)
September 16-21
Live performance 16/9, 12.00

Art activist Mihail Karikis creates an indoor weather system inside Tøyen library. In a performance accompanying his Weather Orchestra, Unni Løvlid and young climate activists sings prayers to the sun to make crops grow, instruments imitate the noise of storms, amidst the howling voices of young climate protesters.

Kathy Hinde: Listening Horns
Klosterenga park
September 16-21
12:00 - 20:00
Live performance Sounding Horns: 16/9, 13.00

Listening Horns by Kathy Hinde feature handmade horns emerging from the ground, revealing the underwater sounds from a stream in the Klosterenga park. In the live performance Sounding Horns, Hinde and French hornist Hild Sofie Tafjord improvise with the local soundscape, transforming the surroundings into a responsive ecosystem.

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Organic sound delights

Mikhail Karikis’s installation is a magnificent force of nature. From a Baroque wind machine to a Latin American ceremonial rain stick, ocean drums, aqua-phones and thunder sheets, the gallery is filled with organic sound. In the middle of this soundscape and swept up by the noise, human voices burst in folk songs expressing joy, respect, fear and wonder toward all elements surrounding us.

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Horns of plenty

'When we look at the surface of things, we don’t often realise there’s a whole world beneath. Hinde’s Listening Horns eavesdrop on the aquatic world usually beyond our limits of perception. I heard sounds emerging from curiously shaped metallic horns that seemed to grow from the undergrowth. This experience created a space for me to reflect around environmental issues. Intriguing!’

Mikhail Karikis I Foto: Felicity Crawshaw

Kathy Hinde I Photo: Simon Webb

A 'listening horn' I Photo: Neil Jarvis

Gustavo Costa I Sonoscopia

Henrique Fernandes I Sonoscopia

Vincent Martial

Image from Liquid Aesthesia

Image from Liquid Aesthesia

In collaboration with

  • Sounds Now, Deichman Tøyen, Klosterenga park and Cinemateket

Supported by

  • Sparebankstiftelsen DNB
  • Creative Europe Programme of the European Union