Nafiseh Mousavi, Heidi Hart/Beate Schirrmacher, article drafts

This week Heidi Hart (guest researcher at IMS) and Beate
Schirrmacher will present a new project titled Instruments of Repair: Transforming Musical Materials in the Age of Climate Crisis.

About the seminar

When perceived as art and expression of culture, music is usually centered on human experience and activity. However, all sounds, both musical and non-musical, connect the hearing individual with the surrounding world. Beginning with art-historical context on artworks that intentionally damage musical instruments, we investigate the cultural and ecological implications of this damage and the ways in which it can lead toward material transformation.

Bios

Heidi Hart is an arts researcher, educator, and practitioner based in the US and Scandinavia. Her Ph.D. focus on music as resistance under National Socialism in Germany has grown toward new applications in climate crisis art, film, and fiction. She is currently a guest researcher at SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen and will complete a research project, “Instruments of Repair,” at Linnaeus University in Sweden in 2023.

Beate Schirrmacher, member of IMS is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. She has published on the music transformation in literature, as well as the relationship of violence and music in film and literature.

How to attend the seminar

It is possible to attend the seminar both from Dacke in Växjö and via zoom. Contact us at ims@lnu.se if you want to participate via zoom, or sign up for our external email list to receive automatic updates on our events (zoom link and additional information are sent out one week in advance).

Photo: 'Aurora - Connecting Senses’, Cristina Pop-Tiron & Signe Kjær Jensen