The experiment for PSL 2023, a soundwalk, was presented publicly on Friday July 7, 2023 in Makrinitsa at an event entitled "Echo/locations: Soundwalks in Makrinitsa".
This year's PSL experiment was produced through a 3-day workshop, entitled Ec[h]/o/ntologies, which was led by Ismini Gatou in collaboration with Anthrobombing. PSL 2023 participants collectively explored fragments of the ec[h]/o/ontological relationships they were experiencing in Makrinitsa and Pelion and produced a multimedia walk through the village.
Based on a research-creation methodology - a fusion of research, theory and art - the participants focused on sound presences (human and non-human), stories, voices, noises, silent absences, planetary enunciations, geological rumblings, the sounds of survival. They attempted to store some "imprints" of all these emotional encounters, using walking and recording, not as ways of extending the field or capturing and extracting something from the field, but as technologies related to and done-with- field.
The experiment resulted in a collaboratively constructed sound-based narrative; a local multimedia-walk in the village of Makrinitsa, through which the cohort explored what happens when sounds and stories move with us (and vice versa). The soundwalks created through the workshops were five:
For the needs of the experiment we used the Echoes app, where the experiment is open and accessible to everyone.
Instructions: To be able to experience the soundwalk you will first need to download the application on your mobile phone and be in the area of Makrinitsa. Each individual soundwalk is digitally captured in the application inside a bubble. So, once (in Makrinitsa and) in the application you will see that the soundwalk route is surrounded by a bubble, inside which only our experiment can be heard.
This year's PSL experiment was produced through a 3-day workshop, entitled Ec[h]/o/ntologies, which was led by Ismini Gatou in collaboration with Anthrobombing. PSL 2023 participants collectively explored fragments of the ec[h]/o/ontological relationships they were experiencing in Makrinitsa and Pelion and produced a multimedia walk through the village.
Based on a research-creation methodology - a fusion of research, theory and art - the participants focused on sound presences (human and non-human), stories, voices, noises, silent absences, planetary enunciations, geological rumblings, the sounds of survival. They attempted to store some "imprints" of all these emotional encounters, using walking and recording, not as ways of extending the field or capturing and extracting something from the field, but as technologies related to and done-with- field.
The experiment resulted in a collaboratively constructed sound-based narrative; a local multimedia-walk in the village of Makrinitsa, through which the cohort explored what happens when sounds and stories move with us (and vice versa). The soundwalks created through the workshops were five:
For the needs of the experiment we used the Echoes app, where the experiment is open and accessible to everyone.
Instructions: To be able to experience the soundwalk you will first need to download the application on your mobile phone and be in the area of Makrinitsa. Each individual soundwalk is digitally captured in the application inside a bubble. So, once (in Makrinitsa and) in the application you will see that the soundwalk route is surrounded by a bubble, inside which only our experiment can be heard.
The call for that day was as follows:
“For ten days of PSL5, 25 people from different corners of the world came together to Makrinitsa, to learn from this place and from each other. Our time together culminated in the crafting of soundwalks that draw together the threads of our experiences here. Retelling forgotten stories can bring us hope in the fear of burning forests and deserting lands. We tend to see the empty spaces as abandoned, but what if they are just in transformation? Drops of water - a sign of both loss and persistence - remind us about the matters of care and struggle Observing the ants, we want to remember what escapes our sight. Like migratory birds we question the meaning of belonging. We call for careful actions and ask you to let our worlds resonate in you as you step in and step out of our sound circles.”
“For ten days of PSL5, 25 people from different corners of the world came together to Makrinitsa, to learn from this place and from each other. Our time together culminated in the crafting of soundwalks that draw together the threads of our experiences here. Retelling forgotten stories can bring us hope in the fear of burning forests and deserting lands. We tend to see the empty spaces as abandoned, but what if they are just in transformation? Drops of water - a sign of both loss and persistence - remind us about the matters of care and struggle Observing the ants, we want to remember what escapes our sight. Like migratory birds we question the meaning of belonging. We call for careful actions and ask you to let our worlds resonate in you as you step in and step out of our sound circles.”
