Helga Jakobson: Sympoietic Sound

Helga Jakobson, "Pink Web," 2018

Launch and performance by Helga Jakobson and Hilary Crist: 7pm, Friday 2 November

Artist talk: 2pm, Saturday 10 November

Sympoietic Sound takes its name from M. Beth Demster’s definition of collectively-producing systems. The installation highlights the webbed patterns and relations between plants, non human creatures, and humans. In this exhibition relays pass over and through non visible boundaries creating connections and dissonances, and are used to create a soundscape. A co-evolving sound generated from on-goingness.

Here, in this collectively producing system, there are the sounds of plants becoming with webs, humans becoming with both- we hear living, dying and all that lies between. As Donna Haraway says, Nothing makes itself; sympoiesis is a word for worlding-with, for company.