IDW 2021

12 13 #8 Sounding Place By Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny (Cineál) In this workshop we will design and create a sonic in- tervention/interactive art piece that will give a public voice to the participative exercises and discussions of the festival of the meantime. We will invent playful methods that capture sound and space to consider how the sonic landscape and its hidden rhythms and activities exist and can inform the new and common infrastructures of the over-the-ring project. Through online platforms we will collaborate directly with JES, the local youth organisation and with the other workshop groups to gather sounds and stories, both ordinary and extraordinary and recreate them through a sonic recording that will be amplified in the local neighbourhood As well as composing a piece of sound art, the workshop will also design a sculpture(s) that act as a vessel to amplify the recording into the public ear. They may consider a performative element to the piece, for example a dance, recital, or musical act. The installation site(s) will be specific and chosen by the students through contextual studies and alter- native mapping exercises so that they activate and interact with the local environment. In time, they may also provide a platform for new conversations, festival radio or improvised performance As an urban study, we will explore the aural reality of public space, its impact on our shared environ- ments and further, will bring attention to the potential that sound has to change how we understand, design and transform the public realm. #9 The Construction Site By Maarten Lambrechts and Hanne Van Gils Can the construction site become a collective spec- tacle? Can it nourish a bond between large-scale infrastructure and small-scale communities? Can the excitement of building evoke a positive reaction again? Ever since the Tower of Babylon, participation processes and the construction site seem to share a troubled relationship. But maybe we can try again? And the story has a happy ending? This workshop will start with a lecture by a con- tractor who will explain in detail the complex organi- zation of a large construction site. After this introduc- tion, students will engage in a brainstorm session on site with the tutors to discuss how they can hack into the timeline of the construction site (ground work? structure? landscape? other?) and use the available logistics and materials for the benefit of the Luchtbal community. All types of interventions are possible, from a ground works playground, to a festival during con- struction holiday, to infinite road block corridors, or an artistic landmark for the New Luchtbal. The result of the workshop will be a collection of models that showcase the participatory potential of the construction site. Following the theme of the workshop, these models will be (mainly) made from reused and recycled building debris. With the help of local aspiring builders we will design and present these models at the IDW festival. https://cinealplace.com Image 01 Merce Cunnigham performs on Anna Halprin’s dance deck, 1957 ©Lawrence Halprin Image 02 Max Neuhas, Times Square Sound Installation, New York 1977 - present Image 03 Eugene Finnegan, Bláthanna Meirgithe (Two Big Flowers); An Criú 2, July 2019 Image 1 Kennedy tunnel opening, 1969 Image 2 a concert for the workers at the site, somewhere in the Soviet Union Image 3 students participating in the construction of La MéMé, 1970 1 1 2 2 3 3