Colette Aliman

artistiek onderzoek

Colette Aliman is a creative researcher working within the fields of media art and social design. They like researching topics within sonic ecology, producing sound compositions and field recordings, podcasts about sounds of fear, sound installations, and performative lectures. They are launching the platform Sound-Office in Rotterdam that researches the bridges between the development of sound policy, soundscape studies, and sound art practices to generate different ways to engage people's relationships with their soundscape. They are interested in overlapping multi-species sonic cultures, recalibrating our hearing evolution to better live with noise pollution, activating our sonic imaginaries, and the politics of listening.

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    • Soundscape Mixtape Workshop and Lecture

    Workshop

    • 12-03-2020
    • In samenwerking met: University of the Underground
    • Locatie: University of the Underground, Amsterdam
    • ‘If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your evolution’. The lecture was about the parallelism between soundscapes and psychoacoustics. The workshop taught the student’s how to imagine, edit and produce their own soundscapes as reflections of their acoustic wants and needs during and post Covid 19. All was conducted online due to lockdown.
    • https://universityoftheunderground.org/colette-aliman

    Cooking Quantitatively with Energy Commission and Interview

    Project

    • 10-05-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Noam Youngrak Son, 25AV, Kiosk Radio, Radio Raheem, Radio 80000
    • Locatie: 25AV online platform,
    • Colette Aliman and Noam Youngrak Son worked on an audiovisual project commissioned by 25AV. In the video, house wife alter-ego Ursula constructs a recipe for living through these trying times of energy and media politics. We will discuss how to conceptualize energy consumption and relate it to the many different bodies that are using and being exploited by an energized apparatus of commodity. In the end, we will create an energy dough that prophesizes equal distribution of energy across species.
    • https://25av.eu/project/12/

    They'll Audiate Lillies Singing

    Performance

    • 18-06-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Fiber Festival, Elizaveta Federmesser
    • Locatie: LikeMinds, Amsterdam
    • The performance lecture "They'll Audiate Lillies Singing" was commissioned for the Attuning to Mutated Worlds Conference for Fiber Festival in 2022. The performance was a mix of a talk and soundscape listening session on the topic of the Mechaphony, the integration of bio-logic in engineering, and the possibility of attuning our industry for multi-species sonic cultures. The talk was accompanied by a bio-logic prototype by Elizaveta Federmesser.
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dYmC0xaqw&list=PLehNszrNRa3DmfJONnZd2xguSyIQqCk-Y&ab_channel=FIBERFestival

    Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear Podcast

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 20-02-2021 t/m 04-04-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Z33 Museum and Stimuleringfonds
    • Locatie: Z33 Contemporary Art House, Hasselt
    • Colette Aliman and Lauriane Heim collaborate on Conversing Our Soundscape of Fear, a podcast investigating the relationship between sound and the spectrum of fear emotions such as distress, apprehension, and alertness. What can the action of listening tell us about our fears?
    • http://www.conversingfear.online

    Soundscapes Of Fear

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 17-10-2020 t/m 25-10-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Stimuleringsfonds
    • Locatie: Temporary Art Center, Eindhoven
    • The project Soundscapes of Fear highlights Colette Aliman and Lauriane Heim ongoing investigation on the relation between sound and the feeling of fear. What can we learn when we consider fear from a sonic perspective? Through an audiovisual installation, the project explores the growing exposure to sensory information extracted from popular and trending sources such as film, news media, and music. Also coinciding was a panel discussion about fear and society with experts (please see link).

    COSF Podcast Episode 1: Sound Design and the Spectrum of Fear

    Performance

    • 20-10-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Lauriane Heim
    • Locatie: Temporary Art Center, Eindhoven
    • The recording of the first episode of the podcast Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear was recorded live at Dutch Design Week 2020. Participants: Colette Aliman, Lauriane Heim, Toros Senan, Karena Kalmbach and Marylou Petot.
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzK1bJErKEE

    The Mechaphony

    Opdracht

    • 01-09-2019
    • In samenwerking met: TU/E
    • Locatie: Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven
    • This thesis was produced during the Contextual Design Department at Design Academy Eindhoven in 2019. The publication explores: The mechaphony, the growing soundscape of our mechanical systems, has now found itself echoing into the ocean. How has the mechaphony morphed our sonic relations to other species’ sound cultures? And, what is the role of designers and engineers as tuners of the mechaphony?
    • https://files.cargocollective.com/c323977/The-Mechaphony_Colette-Aliman.pdf

    Festooning the Inflatable Beehive

    Project

    • 24-01-2013
    • In samenwerking met: Maria Molteni
    • Locatie: 808 Gallery Boston University, Boston
    • System: ECOnomies presents the work of individual artists and collaboratives who consider the themes of sustainability (environmental, cultural, or economic) through the invention or investigation of ecological systems or micro-communities. The exhibition examines the feasibility of sustainable solutions on small scales and the value of working within modest and minimal means. Festooning the Inflatable Beehive was part of this exhibition.
    • https://festooning.wordpress.com/

    Apisocial Saturdays: Treatment Free Beekeeping symposium

    Workshop

    • 01-02-2013
    • In samenwerking met: Maria Molteni
    • Locatie: 808 Gallery, Boston University, USA, Boston
    • A symposium on treatment free beekeeping for two Saturdays in February in 2013 at the 808 Gallery in Boston during the exhibition System: ECOnomies.

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • 25AV

    • 2023
      Stipendium

    • Creative Industries Fund NL

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • z33 Kunstencentrum

    • 2019
      Stipendium

    • Creative Industries Fund NL

    • 2020