Adam Pultz & Isabel Bredenbröker + Public Retreat

Join us for LYTTEAFTEN where sound artist Adam Pultz and anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker will present a work demonstration of their sound installation: Queer Sonic Fingerprint. Additionally, the artist group PUBLIC RETREAT will talk about their interdisciplinary, practice-based art project.

Isabel Bredenbröker og Adam Pultz: Queer Sonic Fingerprint
How does a thing sound? And how can objects in a museum collection resonate in unexpected queer kinship relations with each other? The interactive multi-channel sound installation Queer Sonic Fingerprint makes relationships audible by considering museums and their collections as a living environment populated by objects, people, ideas, and, notably, norms and prejudices.
Sound artist Adam Pultz and anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker use queer and decolonial theory as well as anthropological work on kinship to speculatively imagine non-normative relationships around objects in various ethnological museum collections, including the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. The installation amplifies the materiality of the objects through sonic fingerprints—that is, soundscapes of bodies’ unique acoustic properties.
Isabel and Adam are currently on the Sounds of the Future Residency at Sound Art Lab.

PUBLIC RETREAT is an interdisciplinary, practice-based art project centered around the exploration of our common auditory urban environment and the human, non-human and more than human experiences of and relations to it. Site and context specific sound-, radio-, visual-, and text-based works will be produced, shown, and broadcasted in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, with themes relevant to urban settings and societies in the world at large.
Through artistic research, sound works, radio broadcasts, workshops and exhibitions, our aim is to engage fellow citizens to contemplate on the role of sounds in our lives, from their purely physical properties to their emotional, psychological, and physiological impact.