S for Sound, S for Solidarity, Episode 2:
“A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance”
Morten Poulsen (DK)
“A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance”
Morten Poulsen (DK)
A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance is a sonic art project and audio essay by artist and composer Morten Poulsen.
The project takes its point of departure in the Danish national government’s controversial decision to build a highway across Egholm - a rural island located in the Limfjord waters near the city of Aalborg, Denmark. Egholm is often promoted by the local municipality as a calm and silent refuge for humans, and as a unique natural setting just outside the post-industrial urban periphery. The island is home to much animal and plant life that will be greatly impacted by the mega-project Egholmlinjen. Therefore, to understand the place from other perspectives, in A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance, Morten Poulsen listens together with the island - its inhabitants and local citizens who organize against the highway, but also the fauna and flora - including a very special willow tree. Weaving together a post-human sensation of entanglement, the audio essay proposes a change in our listening position, that can afford us with means to create new narratives about the relation between ourselves and the environments we are a part of.
This is the second episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara.
The project is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation. A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Louise Faber, Henrik Mørch, Rosanna Børsting, Henrik Sakstrup, Urt Willemoes, Annika Holmes, Marilia Fotopoulou, Thomas Munk-Petersen, Bente Jensen, Mikhail Karikis, Scott William Raby, Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, and the plants and animals that inhabit Egholm.
The project takes its point of departure in the Danish national government’s controversial decision to build a highway across Egholm - a rural island located in the Limfjord waters near the city of Aalborg, Denmark. Egholm is often promoted by the local municipality as a calm and silent refuge for humans, and as a unique natural setting just outside the post-industrial urban periphery. The island is home to much animal and plant life that will be greatly impacted by the mega-project Egholmlinjen. Therefore, to understand the place from other perspectives, in A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance, Morten Poulsen listens together with the island - its inhabitants and local citizens who organize against the highway, but also the fauna and flora - including a very special willow tree. Weaving together a post-human sensation of entanglement, the audio essay proposes a change in our listening position, that can afford us with means to create new narratives about the relation between ourselves and the environments we are a part of.
This is the second episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara.
The project is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation. A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Louise Faber, Henrik Mørch, Rosanna Børsting, Henrik Sakstrup, Urt Willemoes, Annika Holmes, Marilia Fotopoulou, Thomas Munk-Petersen, Bente Jensen, Mikhail Karikis, Scott William Raby, Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, and the plants and animals that inhabit Egholm.
Wednesday, March 26th:
Live Listening Session and Talk from 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Huset i Hasserisgade (Concert Hall)
Hasserisgade 10, 9000 Aalborg
Note: the event is free of admission and anyone can attend, no sign up is necessary. The event will be primarily in English (with some Danish). Free snacks and refreshments will be available.
Live Listening Session and Talk from 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Huset i Hasserisgade (Concert Hall)
Hasserisgade 10, 9000 Aalborg
Note: the event is free of admission and anyone can attend, no sign up is necessary. The event will be primarily in English (with some Danish). Free snacks and refreshments will be available.
Morten Poulsen works at the intersection between sound art, artistic research, social engagement, and activism. With sound, listening, and participatory-based processes, he explores socio-political structures, often focusing on gender, power relations, climate change, and the ways in which they intersect. His artistic work has been shown across different art institutions such as Kunsthal Aarhus, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Kunstbygningen i Vrå, SixtyEight Art Institute, c4 projects, and Skjold Contemporary in Copenhagen (DK). His artistic research has been presented at the PARSE Biennial for Artistic Research, Gothenburg (SE), and Seismograf (DK). As a musician, Morten Poulsen has toured internationally with the underwater concert AquaSonic. He was educated at the International Center for Knowledge in the Arts in Copenhagen (2022) and graduated with an MA in Music Creation from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 2021.