Heidi Holmström

50hz conference call focuses on temporality of acoustic ecologies of a place. Part of a research project Some places only exist through voices, the project focuses on the importance of hearing. To hear, we must listen. While landscape is often described as visible features of an area of land, sounding becomes essential in re-constructing these temporalities where over time things change and get lost - and which these sounds inhabit. The contrast in between the constructed landscapes and nature can be realised how birds are inhabiting the electricity lines. As not fully becoming a part in the electricity circuit, the birds use the power lines to seek rest, shield and to get a point of view. The adaptation occurs on these electricity lines, as the birds use them as some sort of replacement for trees; It becomes their momentary ‘seat’. While these landscapes change, the nature that surrounds it does too. Since nature doesn’t respond to symmetry, it forms a polyphonic score of the present. Finally ‘having seat at the table’, the 12 conference speakers transmit the body of the birds. Their sounds, communication- and alarm calls forms an asymmetric score of their sonic qualities, which introduces as what joy and urgency sounds like at the same time. Site-specific focus in The Netherlands, the audio consists of Amsterdam wildlife footage and field recordings made in Moordercht, which is one of the last places in the Netherlands where wooden electricity poles run energy.

Scores sourced from the jumps at women’s free programmes of top 10, during Beijing 2022 Olympics. The music score consists of the tiny second moment when the competitioner’s jump lands and the blade cuts through the ice - that is where the pitch is recorded. Each jump they performed during the performance is recorded from the archive of the Olympics. By watching closely these footages of such a highly competitive sport, and interpreting it into strict notation, it questions how such as beauty, competition, calculativeness, motion manipulation and restrictions are seen in our society through sports and movement. Accordingly, the music notation interprets the duration and precision of the programme, by making scores out of the jumps and rests from the in-betweeen time of the jumps. The temporality of the present is translated into musical score using musical notation as a way of writing data. ‘Triple axel is difficult. You try it anyway - it brings a better score. ‘

Scores sourced from the jumps at women’s free programmes during Beijing 2022 Olympics. Gold, silver and bronze; set of three miniature rinks in the miniature size of the original competition figure skating rink. Creating scores out of the placements of landing of the jumps. Supporting the first part of the installation, where the scores were written from the moment when the blade cuts through the ice into a musical composition score.

Self published artist book/research paper, about Hydrosphere, conceptual displacement, Social geograpy, hydrofeminism, and acoustic ecologies.

Part of HetResort Midseason exhibition at Bowlingcenter Groningen

A site-specific installation in the former surveillance room of U.S Embassy 8 hand-cut and carved glasses with business ID’s of U.S based companies called North Star (Polaris) and UV protected film covering the whole surveillance room. 802755589 26784490 543009892 companies in U.S cyber security ; Insurance ; investments ; engines & Batteries. Investigating the contrast between success-seeking-development industry and astrology as understanding nature.

made together with Baroeg Mulder for the duo-exhibition Phatic Utterances in Antwerp

Time and site-specific light installation/intervention on a ruins of a shed Focusing on the essence of source (sunlight) rather than the expectation of aesthetics. The myth about Phoenix goes, that they carry 7 halos on top of their head. According to the geographical features of Northern Portugal, which is known for its cork trees. The cork oak (quercus suber), is native to the Alentejo and is one of the most common tree species in Portugal. Forest fires occupy Nortern Portugal yearly, in which the cork trees are the only ones rising back up from the ashes, by their unique material of outer layer, cork, being a insulating material. Geographically being on-site near Coimbra, reacting to the action by referring to the Greek mythologies of Phoenix, the bird who is ‘immortal’. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by rising from the ashes of its predecessor. made in series on Ponte d'arte residency

temporary intervention on a former abandoned gas station on-site research on geographies and living ecosystem of cork trees, and their ability to re-grow after yearly forest fires. 1cm layer of ash that involves burnt cork from these ‘fire proof’ trees is distributed on the roof of the empty gas station as a performative act, as a temporary ritual. made in series during ponte d'arte residency in Portugal