Lilli Weinstein, 2023
Edaphon
Sound installation, acoustic monitor system, listening framework // 2023
Master's research project exploring soil life at the Artscience Interfaculty, Den Haag (NL), 2021 - 2023
Exhibited at the exhibition Fragmented, Fiber Festival 2023, Amsterdam (NL),
Artscience preview show - HONK if you're at the intersection, Den Haag, 2023,
The Graduation Festival, The Royal Academy of Art, KABK, Den Haag, 2023
We are always in some form
of symbiotic relation
whether we know it or not
whether we pay attention to it or not
whether we choose to ignore it or not
whether we want it or not
We are dependent on other species
on other people
We have evolved together
co-evolved in a complex system that
when conditions are right
insists on life in whatever form
Lilli Weinstein, 2023
With this (re)search
I have offered attention to
the overlapping lifeworlds of different species
and other-than-human-conditioned perspectives
On a fundamental level
I explored how to
create circumstances for
becoming better familiar with our fellow planet mates
(as evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis would call them)
and their lifeworlds
The project focuses on strengthening
the bodily sense capacities and
technological perspectives that expand beyond
the bodily range of perception
with attention to the soil ecologies
How to include a wider variety
of lifeforms and their voices
into our human consciousness and experience?
Edaphon and ladybug, 2023
Illustrations from the "European Atlas of Soil biodiversity", 2010
Soil is a crucial living system
that supports key biogeochemical cycles
and advanced ecological systems
Edaphon is that which lives in the soil
— the vast and diverse underground network of
plants
nematodes
bacteria
fungi
earthworms
arthropods
and mammals
'Soil Food Web' in the thesis 'Some principles for symbiotic practices'
Edaphon, Fragments, Fiber Festival 2023
The sound installation Edaphon explores
the living soil and relations with and amongst
the life unfolding within the
seemingly silent
underground
A multitude of coil clay sculptures
each of them rings humble sounds
that form sonic silhouettes
of the vibrant bodies
under the surface
Through this open-ended sound composition
the installation allows access to a place beyond
the human-scaled environment
where Edaphon becomes an instrument for listening
and giving careful attention to
the underground world above us
Lilli Weinstein, 2023
Lilli Weinstein, 2023
Tingyi Jiang, 2023
Meijendel forest, listening place 2022
Listening
is to open the ears
and the mind
and the senses
and the body
It is to bring the internal vibration
or the external reverberations
into attention
Listening is giving attention
and time
Within this research Edaphon is accompanied by
other methods such as
longterm listening
collective listening sessions
performance techniques
imaginative poetics
writing
sound composition
that all together guide the participants and me towards
building familiarity with the soil biota
by opening up the imagination
and the senses
from different perspectives
Guided, speculative listening session and soundpiece at Instrument Inventors Initiative (III), Den Haag, NL.
Undergrounding practices, listening session, Flipchart #6, III 2022
Edaphon installation, Fiber Festival 2023
Edaphon, Artscience Preshow 'HONK - if you're at the intersection', by Ira Grünberger, 2023
Edaphon is an ongoing research project
that together with the thesis titled
Some principles for symbiotic practices
has become the starting point
for a much deeper exploration
into the ecological aspects of our reality
and specifically the relation to the lands and soils
on which we base our existence
Excerpt from thesis "Some principles for symbiotic practices"
For future foci
much more attention can be given
to collaborations with those who farm and modify
the lands and soil environments
To low-powered and simple circuits
where complex sonic dynamic experiences
might emerge by the many
To acoustic monitoring precission and mapping
To regenerative ways of producing
within artistic and scientific practices
And to ancestral knowledges and spiritual practices
I dream of sincere creative processes
where reciprocal interaction
between different species is non-superficial
and where other species
have a space for expression