Resounding body ecologies
Resounding body ecologies is an ongoing practice-based research project that engages with geographies that are human, environmental, technological and architectural, considering them as dialogic forms of entanglement and reciprocity. The concept of ‘ecologies’ used here is a way to describe the relational infrastructures that inform our frameworks for shared inhabitation; and ‘geographies’ refers to the physical realities that inform these infrastructures.
This visual research project encompasses past, present and future works and field recordings. I have decided to forefront the centrality of working through context, allowing my own bodily movement (walking, breathing, dancing, laughing, crying, speaking, resting) to remain in active conversation with the geographical bodies I am in exchange with.
This is not (currently) an institutional project but an interdependent undertaking through the body of an experimental somatic, sonic and time-based artist in exchange with other bodies. At the time of creating this page, I am choosing to live in an itinerant way, dislocated from a permanent ‘home’, considering livelihood as an active system of exchange that requires a constant renegotiation of roles and stability; where currency has the possibility to change forms and dialogue takes precedence. These gestures inform the nature of practice that I refer to.
If you would like to get in touch about this project with ideas for exchange, please email me: inneke.taalman@gmail.com
(2026) Field research in Ricote Valley salina (salt plains) outside of Blanca, Spain, using a hydrophone to record the sonic melodies and frequencies of the stream in an arid landscape. Image of the artist.
Field research photograph of steel cables containing large geological forms from coming loose and falling onto the village of Blanca, Spain. Appearing like a giant stringed instrument, evoking tones and melodies through visual articulation of tension and correspondence between humans and the environment.
Geo-microphone on a closed window inside Centro Negra, Spain, recording the vibrational melodies of the village below and the porous boundary of glass that separates bodies and usually gives primacy to ocular vision as a way of listening.
[still] inneke taal, Entropic Navigations, 2021, from a series of digital glitches of architecture and the surrounding coastal landscape that comprised a moving image work as an interrogation of the violence behind the heritage status of the colonial structure of Sauerbier House residency in 2021.
[still] inneke taal, Entropic Navigations, 2021, from a series of digital glitches of architecture and the surrounding coastal landscape that comprised a moving image work as an interrogation of the violence behind the heritage status of the colonial structure of Sauerbier House residency in 2021.
