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.