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Every How Drowned In An Ocean of No How is a participatory performance developed as part of Maid Out Of Ice, a radio-based artistic research initiative founded through Lin Ni's doctoral research at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland, Finland.
Through sound, broadcasting, embodied practice, and collective meditation, the work invites participants to reconsider the entangled relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. Inside a disused fish-processing facility in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, participants are invited to lie down, close their eyes, fall asleep, and dream. As whispered narratives reverberate through the vast metal structure, ferry horns, ocean waves, pipe organ, breathing, and viola intertwine to create an immersive listening experience situated between broadcasting, meditation, and environmental soundscape.
The project continues Lin Ni's long-term artistic research on Planetary Water, approaching listening as a practice of re-inhabitation. Through underwater fieldwork, participatory performance, and collective sensory experience, the work explores how artistic practice can reconnect humans, the ocean, and the more-than-human world, inviting audiences to imagine new possibilities for co-existence with the environments they inhabit.
Every How Drowned In An Ocean of No How was initiated during Lin Ni's 2025 artist residency at Skaftfell Art Centerin Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. The project continues to evolve as part of Maid Out Of Ice, remaining an ongoing artistic research platform that develops through broadcasting, collaborative practice, and site-responsive inquiry.
Video excerpt for happening event click here.
Video excerpt for Deep Circle, opening performance, click here.
Listen to Fresh Out of Fjord (11:44), stereo installation at the show below.