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afloat assembly is a para-institution and residence programme for artistic research and production.

31/08/2020

Such a fabulous exhibition by as a last public event of Afloat Assembly 2020. Its been a fantastic with many great moments, discussions and discourse. Check out IGTV for a tour of the exhibition. And stay tuned for the last contributions!

@ Im Jaich Stadthafen Flensburg

29/08/2020

: invites for a conversation with the engineer and oceanographer Pierre Cauchy.

Join us this Sunday at 16:00 CET via IGTV.

Working with sound and image, Holly Drewett documents sites and sound responding to the recordings through drawing and installation. Through her recent interest in underwater soundscapes, she started working with Pierre Cauchy.

Pierre, who is an engineer with a background in acoustics has compiled a fascinating data-set of underwater recordings. These rarely heard sounds allow applications to ecological questions, such as studying the human interference with animal migration through underwater noise.

Images: ‘sounding scape’ mixed media; ‘[ek - oh]’ Detail. A collaboration with .nonnenmacher .; ‘[ek - oh]’ Work in Progress; ‘decipher sounds like’, Ink on Paper, Print on Voile

Holly Drewett holds a BA Fine Art from Falmouth University and an MA in print from the London, Royal College of Art and she has since exhibited internationally. Holly’s practice is centred around drawing, Working between image and sound, she creates a personal dialogue between the two. She works across a variety of media including print, painting and installation.

www.hollydrewett.com

Pierre Cauchy works on new ways of monitoring the ocean from ocean gliders, using recordings of the underwater ambient noise, with applications to physical oceanography, ecology, conservation and monitoring of anthropic activities. He can hear the wind blowing at the surface on a stormy day, observe s***m whales hunting in the deep ocean and listen to the curious serenade of the fish in the night-time. He has been a research engineer at CEFREM (FR) and holds a PhD at the University of East Anglia (UK).

https://people.uea.ac.uk/p_cauchy

@ Flensburg

28/08/2020

Such a fabulous raku firing session yesterday as part of the preparations for Dietrich Meyer‘s upcoming boat exhibition. Its been a great joy to excavate the results this morning discovering marks from seaweeds on the ceramics. Join us this Sunday at 5:30 pm CET for a virtual tour.

@ Wackerballig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

27/08/2020

Living the sailing live with Dietrich Meyer & Sarah Friend . Currently on our way to Wackerballig.

25/08/2020

: Sarah Friend (CA)

Looking forward to welcoming Sarah Friend to today.

As part of , Sarah Friend will ritualistically guide visitors through her recent work ‘Remembering Network’ and read from selected texts and sounds from the network.

‘Remembering Network’ is an attempt to create a digital "seed vault", using ipfs and other peer to peer protocols. Much like the seed bank, which is built to withstand many kinds of extreme climate and weather, these protocols are similarly designed to withstand network failures and takedown attempts. Sounds by Arkadiy Kukarkin.

Sarah Friend is an artist and software engineer, specializing in blockchain and the p2p web. She is an alumni of Recurse Centre, New York, and an organiser of Our Networks, a conference on all aspects of the distributed web in Toronto. Her exhibitions this year include: crypto_manifold at the Chronus Art Centre in Shanghai, screensaver watching you at On Site Project, Mutek.SF Nexus in San Francisco, and The Art of No Likes residency at Arebyte Gallery, in London.

www.isthisa.com

25/08/2020

: Dietrich Meyer (US)

Looking forward to welcoming Dietrich Meyer to today.

Dietrich will show new pieces for an exhibition traveling with us on the boat from Flensburg to Glücksburg and Wackerballig. Some of the human-made and non-human elements involved will be collected and assembled in response to the immediate environment encountered along the journey and on various field trips. He will invite to sit in on a public raku firing session, an ancient Japanese ceramics technique that dates back as far as the 16th century.

Images: Cascade/A Loss of Balance (to Erode, to Relinquish, to Give Way to Another Day), 2019; Droplet (Verticality), 2020; Balancing Act (to Teeter but Not Totter), 2019/2020

Dietrich Meyer's practice looks to investigate the relationships and inherent contradictions between objects (natural and constructed) and the materials that compose them. The naturally occurring, the effects of human intervention, and the various strings woven that make these cycles inextricably interconnected. Through looking at these various relationships, and by employing a variety of mediums (sculpture, video, photography, drawing, and installation) he looks to explore the complexities and the similarities/contradictions of these relationships, and how they pertain to notions of ecology, coexistence/cohabitation, labour, imperialism/colonialism, intimacy, and the effects that these institutions have on our natural world.

www.dietrichmeyer.info

23/08/2020

Thank you for such a fabulous boat exhibition and foraging session with ( & ). Its been a fantastic group of people joining us for this lovely evening talking to the artists about their recent work and joining for a walk exploring the beach and nature close by.

@ Arnis, Germany

20/08/2020

: Barbara Cueto (ES)

Looking forward to welcoming the tomorrow to during LEG III starting in Schleswig.

As part of , Barbara Cueto will organise a listening session.

A listening session is an act of imagination: a way to follow threads that connect into liminal spaces of experimentation between sound and landscape. The session proposes a journey through soundscapes guided through deep listening meditation. As such, this act of reflexive sonic awareness moves between experiencing everything at once and deep attentive focus on a singular experience. It is way to evoke the particularity of musical sonority in the larger agglomeration fo sounds. In a way, we will be returning to very basic ways of sounding, and therefore, this session can’t be a solitary act, but a way to trigger a meaningful experiences with sound in a communal way. As a result, the session is dedicated to explore how to collectively re-describe what sound does in the human world, and what humans do in the sonic world. Consequently, through careful listening the listening session suggests a process of collective exploration of flexible spaces to stimulate a sensible observation of the ecological phenomena.

Image: 'This site is under Revolution' at MMOMA Moscow as an strategic project from 6th Moscow Biennale for young art.

Barbara Cueto's curatorial projects strive to depict the present, a moment when we are walking towards a post-human world defined by the constant interaction between all things, living and non-living. Barbara Cueto holds a fellowship for emerging researchers at ACC in Gwangju, South Korea. Last year, she was the curator of 'This site is under Revolution' at MMOMA Moscow as an strategic project from 6th Moscow Biennale for young art. Previously, she has developed projects in institutions like the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, Impakt Festival in Utrecht, Marres in Maastricht, Bétonsalon in Paris, and La Casa Encendida in Madrid.

20/08/2020

: The Mycological Twist [Anne de Boer (NL) & Eloïse Bonneviot (FR)]

Looking forward to welcoming the with and tomorrow to during LEG III starting in Schleswig.

As part of , the Mycological Twist will present a few of their Fantasy Maps alongside an open foraging session along different site's in Arnis. Both projects deal with the depiction and reading of a landscape to enable imaginative narratives that once were or could become.

Fantasy maps are commonly employed by someone to project themselves into the future and to navigate towards a place they wish to reach. Sometimes this place is actual, in the shape of a picturesque village along the road, sometimes it is fantasized. In the latter instance it becomes a space of dreams, opening the potential for a travel story to become more palpable and speculative, journeying through an imaginary land of dragons, trolls, cyborgs, and spaceships. The mapping of the story —somewhat paradoxically — allows its reader to believe more in the story, and contrary to expectations land markings allow for additional dreaming.

In contrast to mapmaking, foraging is an activity that approaches the landscape through establishing relationships with and between different given entities. Instead of a two-dimensional cartographic overview, those seekers who engage in foraging are forced to enter a messy entanglement of networks—one in which the strategy of the map gives way to the tactics of survival. For this particular occasion we will take aboard the act of beachcombing next to that of foraging, in which discarded and objects washed ashore are of equal interest as the ones that emerge from the ground.

The Mycological Twist is a project by Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer operating both as a fixed mushroom garden and as a nomadic project, infecting and spreading mycelium alike. Since 2019 the garden is located on a balcony in Berlin. The projects initiated by the Mycological Twist can be seen as a place to investigate the cycle of deterioration and regeneration happening in zones of Dark Ecology.

15/08/2020

Reading a small excerpt from ‘The Work of Wind’ and the Chapter ‘9 Strong Gale - Lukumi’ by d’bi.young antiafrika with current residents Arthur Debert and Carola Uehlken.

15/08/2020

Today we had a reading session of a few books from the afloat library with the books ‘The Work of Wind’ co-edited by Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin, ‘Allan Sekula - OKEANOS’ edited by Daniela Zyman and Cory Scozzari and ‘As We Used to Float’ by Nadin Samman and Julian Charrière. There will be an excerpt available on IGTV. Stay tuned!

.samman .charriere @ Am Strand von Laboe

15/08/2020

After practicing some important sailing skills with the residents we arrived well in Laboe. Lovely weather! Well deserved after two fantastic events yesterday.

Thank you for everyone joining for Carola Uehlken‘s lecture and Arthur Debert‘s performance, now on IG Live available to watch.

@ Laboe

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