The New Liquidity is a transdisciplinary research platform and collective for artistic and curatorial practices, launched by artist, curator and researcher Selma Boskailo and sound artist, composer and researcher Anders Ehlin. They use the term liquidity as a referential trampoline for speculation on the porosity of borders as a means of artistic expression and the creation of alternative and potential scenarios.
Since 2021 the duo has mainly focused on producing numerous iterations of the soundwalk project De-territorialized Listenings, combining research from sound art and media art, art in public space, the fields of locative media and technology, sensory studies and emotional geographies. The project centers on the transformation of familiar soundscapes, while addressing deterritorialization in the context of cultural globalization and distancing from the locality through mediatization, migration and commodification of life under the global capital. In 2022 the project was selected as a part of Project Anywhere’s Global Exhibition Program for art at the outermost limits of location-specificity, a collaboration between The University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology (The New School, New York).
The New Liquidity is engaged in parallel ongoing research projects using participatory soundwalks, audio guides and installations, mainly investigating the future of freshwater and marine ecosystems, as well as the fluid heritage of water as a repository of geo-cultural and human-non-human memory.
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For the festival betweenEbbandFlow: interstitial spaces, The New Liquidity investigated the harbour as a metaphorical space of transition and transcorporeality within a hydrofeminist and posthumanist discourse.
During their residency at AADK/Centro Negra in Blanca, Murcia, Spain, The New Liquidity focused on exploring and listening to the sound of ruins not only to rescue a forgotten past but to reveal displaced memories of their petrified landscape. Through direct interaction with the local community (i.e recorded interviews and discussions) combined with geographical, historical and material research on-site.
As a part of their ongoing series De-territorialized Listenings for ContextAiR Plovdiv, The New Liquidity and Voin de Voin presented a site-specific intervention focused on the river Maritsa. Maritsa constitutes the largest unused public space of Plovdiv, making it into one of the most desolate places in the city, largely forgotten by its inhabitants.
At Københavns Internationale Teater’s/Metropolis’ residency ”From Metropolis to Ecopolis” on Refshaleøen The New Liquidity took the first steps in further exploring the interactive framework of their ongoing project De-territorialized Listenings. Here the duo turned towards the liminal triadic overlap between individual agency, collective interaction/performativity and site specificity. Can collective agency manifest itself through the specific historic and social layers of a place?
Underwater Cosmologies - People of Eels uses the migratory cycle of the Ohrid eel to focus on Lake Ohrid’s environmental landscape and challenges, as well as the historical narratives of the region. By investigating the lake as a deep archive The New Liquidity set out to examine water’s fluid heritage as a place of geo-cultural and human-nonhuman memory.
In an attempt towards decolonizing time and reconnecting to our embodied selves, The New Liquidity is proposing a slow float - a guided meditation for reimagining our corporealities. It is focused on the liminal ecotone of Lake Balaton as a body of water, but also a place of transition and transformation.
In an attempt towards decolonizing time and reconnecting to our embodied selves, The New Liquidity proposes a slow float - a guided meditation for reimagining our corporealities. It is focused on the liminal ecotone of Lake Balaton as a body of water, but also a place of transition and transformation.
In the Roman thermal baths of Villa Romana di Casignana, situated above the E90 national road which cuts the still active archeological site in two, The New Liquidity staged a sonic intervention intended to regenerate fleeting traces of an absent past in order to play with the intimacy of a different possible reality.
During their first research period at the nomadic site-specific residency In Ruins, The New Liquidity focused on contemporary readings of Mediterranean archeological sites predominantly in Calabria, Italy. In the ruins of the San Domenico Convent in Polo Museale di Soriano Calabrohe the artists engaged in various kinds of deep listening to the sound of the ruins, not only to rescue their forgotten past, but also to reveal displaced memories of their petrified landscape.