The Other-than-human event at Studio Baustelle presents performance-talks, performances, short films and installations intended for, created by or with other-than-humans, be it cybernetic sound entities, the non-living, bacteria, or your cat. As Donna Haraway posited, the crises we are facing requires an ecological perspective to reshape our relationship to the earth and all of its inhabitants. On a more individual level, our relations to our oddkins are often our most meaningful relations even though we rarely think of them as such, filtered through a human-centric perception. In the talks we hope to hear how the artists' practices are shaped by these relations and vice versa. Human artists and audiences are welcome.
Schedule:
17th of January:
17.00 Lussidotter: The wind brings the flood (perf)
17.15 Hugsten: Hyperpresence and Dead Silence - Negotiating noise with the non-living (video, installation, talk)
18.00 Kellyosa Ersmark: LUNATIC (short film, paintings, talk)
18.30 Karin Valis: you-look-weary-too: reading for spiritually wealthy xenophiles at the brink of dissociation.
19.00 Hugsten: Von gutem, Willy Kyrklund and our relation to insects (amplified insects, objects, cut-up poetry)
19.45 C3T: intestinal synthesis in cybernetic feedback system (perf-talk)
20:00 Steve Williams / drusnoise: There is no separation: cyborg, hybrid sound with plants, bodies, heartbeats, light, and sound. (perf-talk)
18th of January:
15.30: Sam Godfrey: Encounters in the Hydrocommons: a reading of excerpts from creative-critical textual responses to a series of artworks on themes of queer kelp, wet electronics and trans ecologies.
16.00: Hugsten: Unravelling the threads (short film, talk)
16.30: Ani Samperi: Sounding the Sublime: the Impossibility of Individuality in the World of Tactile Sound. (talk)
17.15: Lussidotter and VÅ«: O white wings whirl (perf)
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Artists:
Hugsten
Hugsten is Annsofie & Håkan Jonsson, both members of Studio Baustelle.
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Dead-silence, negotiating noise with the non-living: Installation, talk.
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Hyperpresence as an act of creative recording of the non-living: Performance-talk, video, photos, sound (w contrib. from Eric Mattson and CM von Hausswolff)
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Unravelling the threads: Sounding marine food webs (with Helmholtz institute of Marine Biodiversity), video, talk.
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Von gutem, Willy Kyrklund and our relation to insects: Performance, paintings.
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Karin Valis
you-look-weary-too: reading for spiritually wealthy xenophiles at the brink of dissociation.
Karin Valis is a machine learning engineer and writer with a deep passion for everything occult and weird.
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drusnoise Dr. Steve Williams
There is no separation: A lecture in three acts. Dissolving the boundaries between the human, the other-than-human, and technology, this performance-lecture explores cyborg and hybrid sound with plants, bodies, heartbeats, light, and sound. Creating a liminal space for audiences to attune to unheard sounds and relationships.
drusnoise is the sound project of Dr. Steve Williams, combining analog modular synthesis, digital FX, and organic samples. Drawing on research in energy transition, sound studies, and climate justice, his live work sonifies plants, bodies, and environmental data into immersive experimental sound art that builds relationships between humans and the environment.
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Kellyosa Ersmark
Kellyosa Ersmark is a painter and filmmaker based in the forest of Röstånga, Sweden.
LUNATIC, film, 2012, 5:41 min, stereo, 16:9, HD As an attempt to engage with a non-human temporality, I began photographing the moon’s phases from my balcony in Stockholm during the winter of 2011–2012. I was drawn to an experience of time that is objective, indifferent, and potentially threatening. This inquiry developed into a series of animation experiments in which the moon’s phases confront the viewer, forming a structure of parallel planes that persist on the retina and destabilize the moon’s position within our deeply ingrained symbolic framework. The work articulates a desire to distance itself from socially constructed schedules and to move closer to a cosmic conception of space–time. The music was composed specifically for the film by Simon Mullan and Theodore Trottner.
Smaller-than-life, oil on synthetic paper paintings: "There is something deeply disturbing about this, I don't want to eat them. They are so extremely lovely; I want them to live. But my animal predator’s mouth waters and I order octopus when I can afford it."
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Lussidotter
Multidimensional artist and poet focused on experience and improvisation, informed by voice meditation, reflection and overcoming.
Short performance on 17.01: THE WIND BRINGS THE FLOOD
Main performance on 18.01, supported by VÅ«: O WHITE WINGS WHIRL
Ani Samperi is a sound artist and experimental musician using the physicality of sound as a portal through which sound can speak via the wisdom of the body.
Sounding the Sublime: the Impossibility of Individuality in the World of Tactile Sound. This talk explores the idea of symbiosis between the listening body and sound installation as one resonating organism, and the fragility of individuality in the presence of that which is greater-than-human. In this encounter with the sublime, do we truly fear our own darkness, or the idea that our darkness may not be unique at all?
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C3T
C3T (also known as Seht Zhan) is a Brazilian musician, sonologist and “kaosmeister”. His work is not academic per se but very philosophical and intellectually transdisciplinary. Seht relationship with his tools and composing strategies is very much influenced by an animistic philosophy of purpose and a natural tendency to challenge the established.
Teleofilia Tectológica: A performance/essay rooted in long-term research into cybernetic feedback systems in poetic sound synthesis. The work begins by instantiating a minimal Kantian Whole, a closed organization from which teleonomic agency can emerge. Using what I call intestinal synthesis, consequences are continuously analyzed and returned as conditions, allowing a synthetic auditory organism to arise — and eventually collapse.
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Sam Godfrey
Sam Godfrey is an artist, writer, curator and PhD researcher at the University of Exeter. They like to tinker with textiles, sound and 3d programs, often creating installation works that you can get inside, lie down in and interact with. Their artistic research looks at creeping as a trans creative methodology, working across critical craft theory and visual culture, trans ecology and new media practices. They are currently the 2026 recipient of the Ronald Duncan Stipend for Southwest Writing (UK).
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Encounters in the Hydrocommons: a reading of excerpts from creative-critical textual responses to a series of artworks on themes of queer kelp, wet electronics and trans ecologies. Framed as a series of speculative encounters with the artworks that correspond to the different regions of the oceanic floor, Encounters in the Hydrocommons was a collaborative project between Frankie Hallam and Sam Godfrey in 2022 that resulted in the accompanying catalogue available at this event.