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Every How Drowned In An Ocean of No How is part of participatory happenings organized by Maid Out Of Ice, a project initiated by Lin Ni’s doctoral research project titled Rehydrate, Re-Radio and Re-Decolonize: Filming and Bridging Beneath and Beyond the Surface of Water Between Arctic and Pacific, at The Faculty of Art and Design in University of Lapland, Finland, with scholarship provided by Skaftfell Art Center in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. The hydrofeminist situated, radio-based pilot program Maid Out Of Ice explores water literacy and ways of re-inhabitation through sonic, meditative, performances/workshops. Lin is abled to conduct slow travel through ferry connections between Finland and Iceland with Nordic Culture Point’s Mobility Funding, and conduct exhibition/workshop events. The project is in collaboration with Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, LungA Radio School and Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD) Network in University of Arctic Network.
In the happenings, Every How Drowned In An Ocean of No How, Lin invites participants to lay down, fall asleep, and dream as soft words about human/non-human entanglement were spoken and bounced off the walls of a defunct fish processing facility inside a fish factory in Iceland. How does the ocean speak to the land? How does an artist provide alternative experiences in communication and initiate re-connection to natureculture? Petrichor—the rain’s breath upon the earth—mingles with the briny scent of the sea, with sulfurous whispers of dimethyl sulfide, with the ghost of phytoplankton and fish; and through the cylindrical metal walls of the fish silo, the ferry horn resounds like a distant summons from the ocean floor. Then, sounds of air reverberated in the local pipe organ, an instrument for local congregation, touched and played by Lin’s toes and fingers, were recorded and transported through electrical signals accompanied by viola.
“How does Land teach us—and how do we listen through creative practice?”Through underwater fieldwork, performative workshop, Lin brought forth experiences of ocean immersions to land, and invite participants to listen to these deep echoes of jellyfish, whales…and reflect, imagine, and dream on possibilities of collective re-inhabitation.
Video excerpt for happening event click here.