Becoming antenna
I am a multidisciplinary artist, living and working in Brussels and Switzerland. My work extends across poetry, performance, sound art and experimental music.
In my practice, I think from the body, all the sensory perceptions, sensitive sensations, and (hyper)sensitivities. Somatic practices have a formative influence. It is an investigation in order to find visceral and physical expressions. With speculation and imagination, I explore how we can feel and sense (differently), (how) can we sensitize ourselves to other entities and our threatened environment. My practice is nourished by feminist thinkers, (un-)rooted in a restlessness, a discomfort in times of political turmoil and ecological crises and catastrophes. Nevertheless, it presupposes hope, with insistence on fragility and sensitivity as valuable and constitutive forces.
My practice and research find temporary appearances in the form of live events; (sound) performances, readings, or installations, spatial situations, or publications.
I completed training in Fascia Release Techniques at the BodyMindAcademy, 2024, and have a Master's degree in Art Practice at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in 2019. In Brussels, I am part of the artist cooperative LEVEL FIVE and also a represented at OVERTOON - Platform for Sound Art. In 2024, I participated in Seminars at the Institute of POSTNATURAL STUDIES, at SOUND ARGUMENTS, a program for sound art practices, organised by ORPHEUS INSTITUTE, Gent, BE, did a residency in MORPHO, Antwerp, BE, 2023. I took part in group exhibitions at Open Studios CENTRE CULTUREL SUISSE 2024, Paris, BIENNALE BREGAGLIA BONDO, CH, 2024, SEASONAL NEIGHBOURS, Z33, BE, 2022, among others, and participated in various projects in public spaces, such as ORTUNG in Chur, KUNSTWEGE in Pontresina, and KUNSTPLÄTZE in Bern, CH.
One of my main projects, +41 (0)800 00 12 16 – a voice message project, is an experimental platform for poetic pieces and language-based works (www.0800001216.ch).
In my practice, I start from the body, from sensory perceptions, sensitive sensations, and (hyper)sensitivities to find visceral and physical expressions in semantics or sound. I try to explore how we can feel and sense (differently), (how) we can sensitize to other entities and our (threatened) environment.
I want to continue a research related to a work I did at BIENNALE BREGAGLIA BONDO 24 (https://www.inesmarita.ch/sorel-sussurra/). I have put focus on a story by the strong female personality & writer Silvia Andrea (1840-1935) and on the particular sensitivity of the bees which she addresses in her text; She tells how a entire bee population are sensing the movement of the mountain and escape four days before a devastating rockfall in 1618.
Returning to this story I would like to contextualize it in present, current studies of ecoacoustics. In particular, I would like to take a closer look at vibroscapes, an important component of the environment that is often unnoticed, presumably because it lies outside the range of human perception, but which can provide crucial information about interspecies relation and especially environment changes. In general, I am interested in the geological, political, and personal implications of the shivering and vibrating.
Can we learn from bees? If so, how? Or at least interact and coexist with them more? Is there a kind of interspecies knowledge that can be shared? Is there a way to raise sensitivity as humans? Following the hypothesis that humans once had more pronounced, nuanced vibrotactile sensitivity.
In another context of sound research, I began to build a technical-musical system, with the question: How can (my) body become an antenna? A musical speculation on how seismic waves could be received and also transmitted. This research could be a possible continuation for the project. But I can locate these speculations in various formats and versions of narrative possibilities with words, sound, or (moving) images.