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SENSING FROZEN FLOWS explores the signals of climate change found in and around the Yukon and Klondike Rivers—their confluences and histories.
This acoustic cartography is a way of doing-mapping ‘otherwise’. A collective practice of sounding and listening to the transmissional waves, sonic seepages, and vibrational resonances of environmental matter in a state of transformation and change.
It is also a way of tuning into the embodied and perceptual experiences of living communities as well as a method for exploring the deep-currents of histories and memories that flow through these ancestral lands.
Sound maps defy the cartographic conventions and logics of the ‘line’ that inscribe powerful and violent asymmetries into land; converting relational ecologies into property that can be owned and resources that can be extracted.
Produced in collaboration with students from the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Dawson City. Realised by Susan Schuppli during the winter of 2025.
Students: Jove Boutin, Grace Bruder, Bronwyn Butterfield, Sam Huxley, Andrew Kearns, Milo Jackson, Lacey Leforte, Gabe McLellan, Sadie Wasylko
SENSING FROZEN FLOWS explores the signals of climate change found in and around the Yukon and Klondike Rivers—their confluences and histories.
This acoustic cartography is a way of doing-mapping ‘otherwise’. A collective practice of sounding and listening to the transmissional waves, sonic seepages, and vibrational resonances of environmental matter in a state of transformation and change.
It is also a way of tuning into the embodied and perceptual experiences of living communities as well as a method for exploring the deep-currents of histories and memories that flow through these ancestral lands.
Sound maps defy the cartographic conventions and logics of the ‘line’ that inscribe powerful and violent asymmetries into land; converting relational ecologies into property that can be owned and resources that can be extracted.
Produced in collaboration with students from the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Dawson City. Realised by Susan Schuppli during the winter of 2025.
Students: Jove Boutin, Grace Bruder, Bronwyn Butterfield, Sam Huxley, Andrew Kearns, Milo Jackson, Lacey Leforte, Gabe McLellan, Sadie Wasylko
Conducting fieldwork in the Yukon Territory Canada, February-March 2025
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