SONIC ECOLOGIES

Art Laboratory Berlin is glad to have produced the Podcast Channel SONIC ECOLOGIES in 2023 and 2024, partially supported by the Berlin Senate. The podcast series was conceived by Tuçe Erel, with composition and production by Korhan Erel. Each year the podcast had a special theme. The subject matter of 2023 complemented the series Permeable Bodies, while the topics and conversation partners from 2024 were loosely connected to Art Laboratory Berlin’s running program. Each curatorial team member – Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Tuçe Erel – interviewed artists and scientists, and the series spread throughout the year. The podcasts are between 20 and 45 minutes long.

The podcasts are available here below – in chronological order (the most current on top). You can also access them on Art Laboratory Berlin’s Spotify platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artlaboratoryberlin.

Season II – Episode 3 | Ionat Zurr

Sonic Ecologies‘ season 2 comes to an end with a conversation between Ionat Zurr and Regine Rapp. They discuss the phonomenon of biological arts, the complexities of living matter through transdisciplinary research, education, and production, and critically reflect aspects of biopolitics. The conversation is based on Zurr’s artistic practice and artistic research, her role as director of SymbioticA and art professor. The dialog took place on 16 October 2024.

Season II – Episode 2 | Tarsh Bates

Sonic Ecologies‘ season 2 continues with a conversation with Tarsh Bates. The artist reflects about her artistic research with Candida albicans and the more-than-human entanglement with this microorganism and talks about olfaction as interspecies communication, her newest research field. Regine Rapp interviewed Tarsh on 17 March 2024.

Season II – Episode 1 | Sybille Neumeyer

Sonic Ecologies‘ season 2 kicks off with a conversation with Sybille Neumeyer. The talk focuses on the relationship between technology and ecology and how this entanglement manifests in Sybille’s artistic practice. Tuçe Erel interviewed Sybille on 17 March 2024.

In our interview series for 2023, we wanted to inform our audience about our guest artists and scientists as well as the researchers’ interest and how their focus is relevant to our series Permeable Bodies. Our program Permeable Bodies dealt with the human body, especially women’s bodies, and their metamorphosis under the biopolitics and body politics of the Capitalocene.

Season I – Episode 5 | Karolina Żyniewicz – PERMEABLE BODIES

The fifth episode of Sonic Ecologies welcomes Karolina Żyniewicz, who co-led the workshop Capturing Leakage: Body Flows and Material Investigations with Charlotte Roschka. In this episode, Karolina discusses the workshop in retrospect and also talks about the permeability of bodies and how it reflected on the theme of the workshop. The conversation was moderated by Tuçe Erel, and it was recorded on 21 November 2023.

Season I – Episode 4 | Mooni Perry & Hanwen Zhang – PERMEABLE BODIES

The fourth episode of Sonic Ecologies features a conversation with Mooni Perry and Hanwen Zhang, who also participated in the Matter of Flux festival. In this episode, they talk about their practice and their collective AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research). The conversation was moderated by Tuçe Erel, and it was recorded on 22 August 2023.

Season I – Episode 3 | Flo Razoux, Aouefa Amoussouvi and Nicola Hochkeppel – PERMEABLE BODIES

The third episode of Sonic Ecologies features more guests of our current series Permeable Bodies, Flo Razoux, Aouefa Amoussouvi and Nicola Hochkeppel. This episode focuses on menstruating bodies and menopause. The conversation was recorded on 25 September 2023 and moderated by Regine Rapp, one of Art Laboratory Berlin’s co-founders.

Season I – Episode 2 | Lyndsey Walsh – PERMEABLE BODIES

The second episode of Sonic Ecologies features another guest of Permeable Bodies, Lyndsey Walsh. Lyndsey is one of the artists of the Matter of Flux exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin and talks about their art-project Self-Care. Art Laboratory Berlin curator Christian de Lutz interviewed Lyndsey on 14 June 2023.

Season I – Episode 1 | Adriana Knouf – PERMEABLE BODIES

In the first episode of our new Podcast series Sonic Ecologies our guest is artist and researcher Adriana Knouf, speaking about her art projects, scientific research and speculative fiction. The artist was interviewed by Tuçe Erel on 11 May 2023.

Introductory Episode | About Art Laboratory Berlin’s team

In this introductory episode of our new podcast series Sonic Ecologies we introduce the Art Laboratory Berlin team members – Tuçe Erel, Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz – and the Sonic Ecologies podcast series.