Christina Kubisch - Magnetic Attacks: Forty Years of Electromagnetic Investigations

SONIC ACTS ACADEMY Christina Kubisch - Magnetic Attacks: Forty Years of Electromagnetic Investigations 25 February 2018 - Dansmakers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands --- Sound artist Christina Kubisch joins this symposium block to talk about her artistic practice, which deals with an acoustic world that cannot usually be heard. It is mostly based on magnetic induction but also on the research of hydrophonic sounds and solar energy. Most of her sound installations, performances, and compositions uncover a fascination with the hidden field of waves and signals around us, revealing the sonic qualities of concealed frequencies and their social and political effects. Kubisch will situate the discussion around her ongoing project Electrical Walks. This is a series of public sound walks with headphones that receive electromagnetic signals from the environment and convert them into sound. To date, she has developed 66 walks worldwide. Christina Kubisch (Germany) is a pioneer of sound art installation and one of today’s most prominent European sound artists. Kubisch trained as a visual artist, musician, and composer in Hamburg, Graz, Zurich and Milan. She studied flute and piano before turning to electronic music and later focusing on sound sculpture and sound installations, which often involved ultraviolet light, solar energy, and electromagnetic induction. In 2003, she began an ongoing project Electrical Walks: public walks with specially made headphones that receive electromagnetic signals from the environment and convert them into sound. She has developed 66 walks worldwide, including for ZKM, Karlsruhe, The Kitchen, New York, Ars Electronica, Linz, Kontraste, Krems, and documenta 14, Athens. Kubisch was Professor of Sound Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken, Germany, from 1994 to 2013. She has been a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin since 1997. www.sonicacts.com