THE NEW LIQUIDITY

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.

2026

11.9 - 13.9

Tag des offenen Denkmals
Kunsthaus Baurs Park, exhibition Tell me, Grounds
Beyond the Walls: The Lawn That is My Chest, hybrid soundwalk

Hamburg-Blankenese, Germany

6.9

Artist Picnic, Kunsthaus Baurs Park

Hamburg-Blankenese, Germany

3.9 - 6.9

Hamburg Art Week
Kunsthaus Baurs Park, exhibition Tell me, Grounds
Beyond the Walls: The Lawn That is My Chest, hybrid soundwalk

Hamburg-Blankenese, Germany

20.5 - 22.5

Swedish Climate Symposium, People of Eels: Ancestors of the Future, video

Lund, Sweden

21.5

Swedish Climate Symposium, Panel: Culture, climate and biodiversity - artistic methods and cultural expressions under global environmental change

Lund, Sweden

21.5

Swedish Climate Symposium, Keynote: Sonic Interventions: Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Listening by The New Liquidity (Anders Ehlin and Selma Boškailo)

Lund, Sweden

17.6

Launch of TETI journal No.2 “Hybrid Marines” featuring contribution by The New Liquidity

Zurich, Switzerland

10.5 -21.6

Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Exhibition Portheads and Riverbeds
After the Spill (sound sculpture/audio visual installation)

Basel, Switzerland

5.1 - 10.1

Maritime Basel Field Studio

Basel, Switzerland

2024

2.11

Lounch of TETI journal No 1 ”On Transindustrality”, featuring essay by The New Liquidity: De-territorialized Listenings: An Archive of Collapsed Collective Memory

Zürich, Switzerland

31.10

DOK Leipzig, Keynote: Spatial Audio Narratives for Site-Specific Artistic Interventions

Leipzig, Germany

26.10-27.10

Luminafest Light Festival, 4-channel video ”People of Eels: Ancestors of the Future”

Amberg & Weiden, Germany

11.6 - 27.6

Narva Art Residency

Narva, Estonia

18.5 - 10.6

From Metropolis to Ecopolis Research Residency, Københavns Internationale Teater

Copenhagen, Denmark

26.4 - 29.4

Exhibition: Peripheries, People of Eels - slowfloat (audio guide for floating in the lake)

Ohrid, North Macedonia

26.4

Artist Talk, Europe House Struga

Struga, North Macedonia

1.4 - 30.4

PROSPER Air, a collaboration between LOOP (Greece), Eho Animato (Serbia), Peripetjia and LDA Struga (North Macedonia), and Oyoun (Germany)

Ohrid, North-Macedonia

7.3 - 28.3

Little Islands Residency Program

Sikinos, Greece

2023

4.11

De-territorialized Listenings: Memento Maritsa in collaboration with Voin de Voin

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

19.10 - 28.1

Disturbed Waters exhibition, Dubniczay Palace
Tides in the Body, audio-guide

Veszprém, Hungary

4.10

Exit Talk, Centre for Human-Computer Interaction

Salzburg, Austria

20.9

Guest lecturers on site-specific soundwalk practice, Schmiede Festival

Hallein, Austria

18.9 - 13.10

SubnetAIR - Platform For Media Art and Experimental Technologies in collaboration with Centre for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg

Salzburg, Austria

9.9 - 16.9

Context Artist in Residence

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

25.8

Balatorium Ecology Week, Veszprem-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture, The Balaton Limnological Research Institute
Postcards from Balaton, audio-visual installation

Tihany, Lake Balaton, Hungary

26.8 - 27.8

Balatorium Ecology Week, Veszprem-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture
Postcards from Balaton, audio-visual installation

Örvényes, Lake Balaton, Hungary

26.8 - 27.8

Balatorium Ecology Week, Veszprem-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture
Tides in the Body, slowfloat (audio-guide for floating on the lake)

Örvényes, Lake Balaton, Hungary

15.6

Artist Talk, Zlatyu Boyadzhiev Museum

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

26.8 - 27.8

Balatorium Ecology Week, Veszprem-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture
Tides in the Body, slowfloat (audio-guide for floating on the lake)

Örvényes, Lake Balaton, Hungary

15.6

Artist Talk, Zlatyu Boyadzhiev Museum

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2.6 - 25.6

Context Artist in Residence

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

17.2

Guest lecturers at MFA Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, University of Texas

Dallas, TX, USA