Foto Credit: Jenny Schäfer
JULIA NORDHOLZ
Her transdisciplinary work addresses the pressing environmental and social challenges of our time. As artist, curator and social designer, Nordholz creates immersive spatial installations. Her works are often interactive and invite the audience to become part of the art, blurring the boundaries between observer and observed. Her contribution to the exhibition refers to the multifaceted and profound relationship between humans and nature. Her artistic practice is strongly influenced by philosophical and ecological issues. Her work explores the ideological conflicts that affect both the destruction and protection of the environment, and questions the role of individuals and states in the environmental crisis.
It is important to her to “unmute” the voices of ecosystems and give them a voice. To this end, she explores threatened trees, forests and waters and their diverse inhabitants to tell their stories in a poetic way and raise awareness of their need for protection. For her, possessing diverse knowledge (including comprehensive artistic and scientific research, networking, and a general attentiveness to unfamiliar situations), along with intense listening and careful observation, is crucial. Her transdisciplinary project experiences, complemented by her background in various mutually reinforcing studies, as well as her transitions between artistic practice, scientific research, pedagogical and curatorial work, all focused on inclusive and participatory practices, assist her in this endeavor.
Her main motivation is to explore climate change and its effects to raise awareness of its causes and consequences through artistic methods, actively engaging in the discourse. She is particularly interested in society’s perception of climate change, often influenced by individual perspe tives and experiences. Through her artistic and curatorial work, she aims to make the topic accessible to a wider audience and an integral part of social discussions. Her primary focus is on fostering the process of amplifying by empowering both people and nature to assert their rights. Collaborating with local climate protection organizations and scientific institutes, she identifies, highlights, and addresses barriers to social participation and protest. Her current artistic endeavors delve into the tree and forest conservation, the transformation of rivers, shores, and coasts, as well as the dynamics of plant life, cohabitation, and urban evolution, while also exploring rituals and healing practices.
She works with sculpture methods, sound, video, installation, painting, performance and text and combines these to create participatory spatial installations that play with interactive perceptual techniques and thus become alive and uncontrollable. The audience is involved in communicating with the works or interactive performances. In her audio works, she uses field recordings, various analogue and digital instruments. Julia Nordholz resides and operates in Hamburg, Germany.
2017 – 2023
(2nd Master studies)
UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS HAMBURG (HFBK)
M.F.A. / B.F.A
with Prof. Michaela Melián / Time Based Media
with Prof. Simon Denny / Time Based Media
with Prof. Jesko Fezer / Experimentelles Design
with Prof. Gilly Karjevsky / Social Design
with Prof. Rosario Talevi / Social Design
with Prof. Valentina Karga / Social Design
M.A. Arts Theory & History
with Prof. Dr. Nora Sternfeld
with Prof. Dr. Anja Steidinger
with Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lenger
with Prof Dr. Astrid Mania
2016 – 2022
(1st Master studies)
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES HAMBURG (HAW)
M.A. Media Art, Culture Politics and Media Science
2019 – 2023
UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG (UHH)
B.A. American & Anglistic Studies & Systematic Music Science
2010 – 2015
LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY LÜNEBURG
B.A. Cultural Sciences / Sound Art / Digital Media
[selection]
12.09. – 15.09. I 2024
PARLIAMENT OF TREES
Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin
Link: https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/commons-cosmodrome
25.08. | 2024
BOTANICAL JOURNEY
Gängeviertel, Hamburg
Link: https://15jahre.gaengeviertel.de
24.08. I 2024
BOTANISCHE ZIEGEL MANUFAKTUR
Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
Link: https://frappant.org/home/artikel/news/botanische-ziegel-manufaktur/#pid=1
11.06. – 17.06 | 2024
IRGENDWAS MIT NATUR
IM GEBÜSCH MIT
Group Project
Blurred Edges, Hinterconti Gallery, Hamburg
Link: https://www.vamh.de/gigs/5002
10.05. – 26.05 | 2024
PAVED PARADISE
Solo Exhibition
Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
Link: https://kuenstlerhaus-sootboern.de/baumschule
10.05. – 09.06 | 2024
7 SEEDS
– COMMUNICATION UNDER TREES
Group Exhibition
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama
24.05. – 02.06. | 2024
AKUT – SHOULD TREES HAVE STANDING?
Group Exhibition
Westwerk, Hamburg
Link: https://www.westwerk.org/akut.html
03.03. – 12.05 | 2024
FLUID FUTURES
Group Exhibition
Künstlerhaus Lauenburg
Link: https://kuenstlerhaus-lauenburg.de/2024/02/21/fluid-futures-de
05.05. – 12.05. | 2024
NATUR . ENTER
Group Exhibition
Künstlerhaus Bergedorf
20.02. – 08.03 | 2024
MULTIMADEIRA
Artist Residency
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Link: http://www.multimadeira.com
24.01 | 2024
MELLIFLUOUS SIGNS at KUNSTHALLE HAMBURG
// Caspar David Friedrich
Multichannel Sound installation Part III
Sound Installation, Artist Talk
Hans-Werner-Otto Saal, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Link: https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/salon-caspar-david-friedrich
26.11 I 2023
TEA MENUE PERFORMANCE
with with Jenny Schäfer and Joana Owona
Teahouse Planten un Blomen, Hamburg
29.10 I 2023
SONIC BLUE MOON
Sound Performance and Lecture
together with Femi Johnson
Kunsthaus, Hamburg
20.09. – 09.10. | 2023
COASTAL VIBRATIONS
Artistic Research Residency
Prado, Marseille, France
02.09. – 11.09 | 2023
FLOATING TRANSMISSIONS
Radio Sound Art Festival
Artistic direction
Link: https://floatingtransmissions.de
20.07. – 29.07 | 2023
THE WAVVVES
Artist Residency
Sonic Garden Sound Exhibition
Massia, Massiaru, Estonia
14.07. – 16.07. | 2023
MELLIFLUOUS SIGNS
Graduate Show, HFBK, Hamburg
Link: https://www.julianordholz.de/#mellifluous
03.06. | 2023
NEW NOW FESTIVAL
Zeche Zollverein, Essen
Link: https://newnow-festival.com/kuenstler-innen/julia-nordholz
29.06. | 2023
PERFORMING WITH CODE II
Sound Performance
Art- and Media campus HAW, Hamburg
01.02. – 31.07. | 2023
PLANTASIAHH
Artist Residency
Werkhaus Münzviertel, Hamburg
Link: https://www.julianordholz.de/#plantasia
10.01. | 2023
EXPERIMENTS ON EYE CONTACT
Lecture Performance
Literaturhaus, Hamburg
21.11. – 11.12. | 2022
CLEAR RIVER, CALM SEA
Group Exhibition
St. Katharinen Church, Hamburg
28.10. – 30.10. | 2022
PLANETARY THINKING
Artist Residency and Group Exhibition
Lagoon Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
08.10. – 16.10. | 2022
MELLIFLUOUS SIGNS
CLIMATE ART FEST
HafenCity, Hamburg
17.09. – 24.09. | 2022
HIPPOCAMPUS / DER BILLEBERG
Group Exhibition (KiöR)
RV Bille, Hamburg
10. + 11. 09. | 2022
TEE AM SEE
Performance
Künstlerhaus Maetzel,Hamburg
27.08. – 30.09. | 2022
12 BIRDS IN TREES
Sound Installation and Performance
Collaboration with LU‘UM collective
St. Katherinen Kirchhof, Hamburg
10.07. – 23.07. | 2022
DELTA DIVERGENCE
Group Exhibition
raum linksrechts, Hamburg
23.04. – 11.06. | 2022
HEIDE
Group Exhibition
Kunstverein Springhornhof
Neuenkirchen
13.08. – 15.08. | 2021
1 GINKGO BILOBA
Solo Exhibition
Galerie Genscher, Hamburg
29.10. – 01.11. I 2020
HERMES HEMMNIS
Group Exhibition
Grindelallee, Hamburg
01.08. – 21.09. I 2020
TRANSPARENZEN
Group Exhibition
Galerie Genscher, Hamburg
SP2 Galerie, Berlin
16.07. – 31.07. I 2020
SHORT CUTS
Group Exhibition
Hinterconti, Hamburg
XPon-Art Gallery, Hamburg
20.04. – 04.05. I 2020
SKY MAPPING
Solo Exhibition (KiöR)
OT-Poster-Wall, Hamburg
06.06. – 10.06.2019
MYTHS FROM
THE FUTURE
HFBK Gallery, Hamburg
01.10. – 30.10. | 2024
BOTANICAL JOURNEYS
Experimental Workshops
SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
24.10. – 27.10. | 2024
FLUCTOPLASMA
Festival for art, discourse and diversity
Hamburg
14.02. – 28.02. I 2025
WALLS HAVE EARS
ARS, Tallinn, Estonia
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Foto Credit: Jenny Schäfer
JULIA NORDHOLZ (Artist & Curator) works with sound, video, installation, performance and text. She combines these to create participatory spatial installations that play with interactive perceptual techniques and thus become alive and uncontrollable. The audience is involved in communicating with the works or interactive performances. In her audio works, Nordholz uses field recordings, various analogue and digital instruments as well as vinyl and everyday materials. Current work is concerned with the transformation of rivers, shores and coasts, as well as plants, cohabitation, urban transformation, climate change, and explores ritual and healing practices. She lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.
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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2017 – 2023
UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS HAMBURG (HFBK)
Master Fine Arts
with Prof. Kader Attia / Time Based Media
with Prof. Michaela Melián / Time Based Media
Prof. Gilly Karjevsky / Social Design
Master Arts Theory & History
with Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lenger
continued by Prof. Dr. Nora Sternfeld
10 | 2016 – 03 | 2022
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES HAMBURG (HAW)
Study in Culture Politics and Media
10 | 2019 – 05 | 2023
UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG (UHH)
BA Geography
American & Anglistic Studies &
Psychology Education
Systematic Music Science
10 | 2010 – 04 | 2015
LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY LÜNEBURG
Bachelor in Cultural Sciences / Sound Art / Digital Media
29.10 I 2023
RITUALS + SOUND
Performance together with Femi Johnson
Kunsthaus, Hamburg
09 – 10 | 2023
COASTAL VIBRATIONS
Artistic Residency
Prado, Marseille, France
02.09. – 11.09 | 2023
FLOATING TRANSMISSIONS
Radio Sound Art Festival (artistic direction)
along various banks of the Elbe and Bille
cooperation with FSK radio, TIDE radio, HALLO: Radio and more
https://floatingtransmissions.de
https://www.instagram.com/floatingtransmissions
20 – 29.07 | 2023
THE WAVVVES
Sonic Garden Sound Exhibition
Massia, Massiaru, Estonia
06 | 2023
NEW NOW FESTIVAL
Listening Green Line in Grey Floors
Zeche Zollverein, Essen
https://newnow-festival.com
29.06 | 2023
PERFORMING WITH CODE II
Sound Performance
since 03 | 2023
Traces of Waves and Plants
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
03-06 | 2023
PLANTASIAHH
Artist Residency
Werkhaus Münzviertel, Hamburg
10.01 | 2023
EXPERIMENTS ON EYE CONTACT
Text Performance
Literaturhaus, Hamburg
11.12 | 2022
河清海晏 – CLEAR RIVER, CALM SEA
Ribwort cranesbill chickweed goutweed nettle meadowsweet and daisies
St. Katharinen Church, Hamburg
28.10 | 2022
SHOAL
Planetary Thinking
supported by Goethe Institute Nigeria
Lagoon Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
08. – 16.10. | 2022
MELLIFLUOUS SIGNS
ClimateArtFest
HafenCity, Hamburg
https://climateartfe.st/en
17. – 24.09. | 2022
DER BILLEBERG
Hippocampus / RV Bille, Hamburg
10. + 11. 09. | 2022
TEE AM SEE
Künstlerhaus Maetzel, Hamburg
08 | 2022
12 BIRDS IN TREES
St. Katherinen Kirchhof, Hamburg
07 | 2022
WILLOWHERB
Delta Divergence
raum linksrechts, Hamburg
05 | 2022
HEIDE
Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
08 | 2021
1 GINKGO BILOBA
Galerie Genscher, Hamburg
02 | 2021 – 02 | 2022
ENGAGED CITIES
Programme Research
Körber-Stiftung, Hamburg
10 I 2020
TRANSCEIVER
Grindelallee, Hamburg
08 + 09 I 2020
TAKE #9
Transparenzen
Galerie Genscher, Hamburg
SP2 Galerie, Berlin
07 I 2020
BREATHE IN II BREATHE OUT
Hinterconti, Hamburg
XPon-Art Gallery, Hamburg
03.03. – 19.05. I 2024
FLUID FUTURES
Künstlerhaus Lauenburg
https://kuenstlerhaus-lauenburg.de/2024/02/21/fluid-futures-de
10.05. – 26.05 | 2024
PAVED PARADISE
Soloexhibition
Künstlerhaus Sootbörn
https://kuenstlerhaus-sootboern.de/baumschule
04.05. – 12.05 | 2024
NATUR > ENTER
Künstlerhaus Bergedorf
https://kuenstlerhaus-bergedorf.de
10.05. – 09.06 I 2024
7 SEEDS – COMMUNICATION UNDER TREES
Yokohama Triennale
Yokohama Zou-No-Hana Terrace, Yokohama
https://www.yokohamatriennale.jp/2024/en
23.05 – 02.06. I 2024
WOULD TREES HAVE STANDING?
Westwerk, MOM art Space, Galerie LADØNS
https://www.westwerk.org/akut.html
13.05. – 15.06 I 2024
IRGENDWAS MIT NATUR. IM GEBÜSCH MIT
Blurred Edges Festival
Hinterconti Gallerie
https://www.vamh.de/gigs/5006
16.08. – 25.08. | 2024
Frappant Galerie
11.05. – 26.05.2024
Solo exhibition
Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
Link: https://kuenstlerhaus-sootboern.de/baumschule
10.05.2024
Sound Performance
together with Hye-Eun Kim
Video of performance:
https://vimeo.com/951684083
145 sqm installation
8 cubic metres of wood shavings
Acrylic plastic (60 x 50 cm)
12 columns with 24 tree discs (5.80 x 44 cm)
Tree marking spray
Hazer
Fox saw
3 Knifes
Chain saw
Multi-channel sound installation 15 min. (loop)
Video mapping 11 min. (loop)
Link: https://vimeo.com/987697127
Supported by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media
The exhibition takes a look at the intricate connections between humans, nature and capitalism. In an era in which the consequences of human intervention in the environment are becoming increasingly obvious, the artist Julia Nordholz addresses central questions of responsibility, power structures and the potential for social change. With a critical eye on today‘s environmental debates, Nordholz navigates the complex relationship between ideology and reality, the conflict between the destruction of natural habitats and the desire for their preservation. “To assert abstractions in reality means to destroy reality” – this quote from Hegel from 1848 acts as a central stimulus for thought and axis of reflection. Nordholz weaves this philosophical consideration into a comprehensive examination of environmental problems and questions the role of the individual and the state as the cause of environmental disasters.
In PAVED PARADISE sculptures, sound, video, text and performance interweave in a spatial installation. It shows the destruction of nature not only as an ecological tragedy, but also as an aesthetic phenomenon. The tree chippings are a testimony to the loss of green spaces and wooded areas in Hamburg‘s urban environment. The floor of the gallery space is covered with mulch from felled trees in Hamburg‘s urban space. Despite protests, these trees have been removed to make way for planned developments. Julia Nordholz has collected parts of each felled tree and assembled them in the gallery. The installation illustrates the negative effects of increasing urbanisation and construction projects on local biodiversity and the urban climate, but also highlights the importance of raising awareness of the importance of nature and the environment.
The acrystal plaster sculpture was made from the mould of an oak from the endangered Wilder Wald Forest (WiWa) on the Elbe island of Wilhelmsburg. The forest, a successional forest with over 40 tree species and a habitat for numerous animal species, is threatened by the city‘s development plans. Twelve 12 columns are placed around the room, with the annual rings of felled city trees at each end. The twenty-minute video work shows a collage of a 3D animation of the WiWa and footage collected by the artist on walks through and in trees the forest. The multi-channel sound installation is a composition of recordings from the WiWa.
To ensure the forests’ protection, local environmental institutions, conservation organisations and citizens are working to preserve the forest. These efforts are part of a larger fight against the encroaching urbanisation that threatens not only the WiWa, but also many other forests and green spaces in Hamburg and the surrounding area. The protection and preservation of these ecosystems is crucial for the conservation of biodiversity, climate protection and the quality of life of people. The acrystal sculpture, depicting the fragile protective skin of nature, serves as a symbol and memorial for the fight to protect nature in the centre of the city.
Collective urban plant painting
Artist Residency at Werkhaus Münzviertel e.V.
04 – 08 I 2023
„But the plant never lapses into mere sober objectivity; it shapes and forms according to logic and expediency and forces everything with elemental force into the highest artistic form“.
Karl Blossfeldt, 1865 – 1932
Urban nature is diverse and cosmopolitan. Many rare species of flora grow right on our streets. In the Münzviertel district, around the main railway station, in Hammerbrook and St. Georg, we discover a unique assortment of rare flora growing on roadsides, kerbs, walls, wasteland and in the crevices of paved squares.
From the beginning of June to the end of August, Hamburg artist Julia Nordholz was an artist in residency at Werkhaus. On joint project days, herb expeditions were undertaken through Hammerbrook and the Münzviertel, herbs were identified, mapped on a wall poster and seed bombs prepared and sown. Transcultural knowledge about medicinal plants was shared and a Werkhaus tea was prepared. The seeds for the project were collected in the spring from various seed fairs and initiatives.
Werkhaus Münzviertel is a low-threshold service for young adults up to the age of 27 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and for whom existing training and social services are unsuitable. It is also a drop-in centre, especially for young adults who have fled their country of origin and are currently in the asylum process, for example.
Audiowork (12:38min.)
2021
Release Date: 8th February 2021
Annual Exhibition HFBK / Hamburg
Klasse Melián “28 Reisen um mein Zimmer”
Audiowork (4:20min.)
2019
Release Date: 7th February 2019
Annual Exhibition, HFBK Hamburg
Contains parts of Allan Ginsberg’s Reading
(29 January, 1959 / Chicago)
Link: www.tinyurl.com/bdcu49pm
Audiovisual installation
(3:05 min.)
Feburary 2020
Annual Exhibition,
HFBK Hamburg
Title “Objects Looking Back”
In cooperation with MARKK
Museum am Rothenbaum.
Kulturen und Künste der Welt
Conceptual Exhibition
06. – 10.06.2019
HFBK Gallery, Hamburg
with Mette Bjørndal Velling
Mixed Media Installation / Performace
Plexiglas, metal, prisms, crystals, rice cracker,
slide projector, ventilator, sound system,
beamer, glasses, water, book “The Myth of Sysyphus”
of Albert Camus.
Audio 40:00min.
Video 27:00min.
Link: www.vimeo.com/434122492
In the centre of the darkened HFBK gallery, a metal arch with an implemented plexiglass crystal was positioned. The crystal serves as a projection surface for the video screening. In the video excerpt, the face of a woman appears who recites quotes from science fiction novels at irregular intervals. The room is filled with a sound installation. One hears analogue instrument recordings processed by synthesizers, the rustling of a tambourine, embedded in a slightly pulsating beat. On the walls of the gallery, one sees the light projection of mirrored prisms rotating in themselves. These were hung over the gallery’s platform in front of a slide projector. A fan provides the permanent rotation. Twelve reading lamps illuminate prismatic rice crackers. These are mounted on the walls at regular intervals at a height of 1.70m.
In one corner of the gallery, the open book “The Myth of Sisyphus” (Albert Camus) is clamped behind a pane of glass.
In the performance that took place on the opening evening, Julia Nordholz walks every hour with a glass of water to a pedestal that has been positioned in the immediate vicinity of the book. On the pedestal are three glasses, each half-filled with water. Now the
water is poured from the glass brought along from the first, to the second and further to the third glass. Finally, the water that has arrived in the third glass is poured back into the transport glass, so that all three glasses are left half-filled again on the pedestal.
Visitors to the exhibition were offered absinthe and rice crackers for tasting at a bar located in the room.
Size: 10 cm
Material: Ink on Paper & Video
Part of the Group Exhibition “Transparenzen”
at HFBK Online Gallery
https://www.online-gallery.hfbk.net/exhibition.html?exhibition=transparencies1
Pt. I contains the first 5 of 9 messages. (15.07. – 01.09.2020)
Pt. II reveals the last 4 of 9 messages. (17.09.2020 – 03.11.2020)
Galerie Genscher 09 I 2020
SP2 Galerie Berlin 08 I 2020
Online
Pt. I contains the first 5 of 9 messages. (15.07. – 01.09.2020)
Pt. II reveals the last 4 of 9 messages. (17.09.2020 – 03.11.2020)
“Something that awakens memories of school days appears in Take #9. In the online and offline exhibition are hidden a series of digital cheat sheets. If you click on one of the small digital balls, a video opens in each case, in which hands open a note. In a successive process and extending over several slips of paper, a poem unfolds. In it, a message is transmitted from unknown sender to unknown recipient. The messages can be read in different ways. The translation of the material occurs on several levels. All notes are transformed into digital notes, which in turn appear in the videos in their analog form.”
— Verena Issel
Soundinstallation and Performance
Solo Exhibition “1 Ginkgo Biloba”
In context of the Art Off Hamburg
13th – 15th of August 2021
Galerie Genscher, Hamburg
Fotos: Maik Carstensen
In the garden of the Galerie Genscher the recipients enter a 4-point loudspeaker installation. The speakers, hidden in the trees and bushes, fill the space with a 30-minute sound experience. Trees and birds communicate with each other at different distances. Effects are used in the 12-track sound production, causing the voices to appear distant and enchanted in places, and clear and close in others. In a performance, a ginkgo tree is planted, ginkgo tea and leaves are served, and tasted.
Part of the exhibition Delta Divergence
by Sohorab Rabbey
together with Amber Hahn
Sound installation & Tea performance
4-point loudspeaker installation
45min. loop
9th – 23rd of July 2022
raum linksrechts, Gängeviertel, Hamburg
“‘Delta Divergence’ is an installative spatial experiment on the destabilization of land, water and nature with the human encounter in their material properties and qualities. The tension between materials, objects, history and their performative forms in the space will be nurtured. How traditional cultivation processes and playful symbiosis between earth and life are manipulated and interrupted by the extractive economy will be questioned. Drawing a line between colonial past and precarious ecological future, this exhibition equally remorse and rejuvenates the human spirit beyond anthropocentrism.”
— Sohorab Rabbey, 2022
The sound performance and installation consists of the live recording of the plant waves of the willow herb, a plant that is supposed to be the first plant to grow after a wildfire. While the meditative sounds of the plant resonate in the room, a willow herb tea is prepared and all present receive a glass to drink together.
The sound installation mirrors the willow herb wave sound and communicates to the installation by Sohorab Rabbey in the exhibition space.
Soundperformance and installation
& Tea ceremony
11.06.2022
Group Exhibition “Heide”
23rd of April – 11th of June 2022
Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Lüneburger Heide
https://springhornhof.de/bataklik-brezo-heath-hede-heide- %e8%8d%92%e9%87%8e-lande
The sound performance and installation consists of the live recording of the sonifications of the plant heath, a plant that grows in the Nature Conservation Park Lüneburger Heide. While the meditative sounds of the plant resonate in the Springhornhof garden, a heath tea is prepared and all present receive a glass to drink together.
Sculpture sound installation
In the context of the
Sculpture Projekts Exhibition
Hippocampus 2022
17. – 24.09.2022
sound loop 33:33 min.
Topsoil & healing plants
Rudervereinigung Bille
Bei der Grünen Brücke 3, Hamburg
www.tinyurl.com/4tcjesa7
For the ‘Bergfest’ while the vernissage on September 17, 2022, the effect of the plants
could also be experienced auditorily. The sound installation is a composition of sonifications
of biological data of the plants. On 24. September 2022 a harvest celebration took place.
Verantwortlich:
Julia Nordholz – 20097 Hamburg / Germany
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Composition of sonifications of seven plants
Group exhibition “Clear River Calm Sea”
St. Katharinen Hauptkirche, Hamburg
11.12.2022
Soundinstallation and performance: 33min.
Photos: Franziska Brodhun
Audiofile in GoogleDrive folder:
www.tinyurl.com/mwupesv9
The sound installation is a composition of sonifications of biological data of the plants and the transformation into sounds of analogue and digital instruments. In a performative form, the plants that grow around the exhibition space were connected with sensors and synthesizers. In the live recording, a composition of different plant voices is created, a meditative soundscape.
After the soundscape was heard, there was a tea ceremony. I brewed a tea consisting of the plants that were audible at that moment. For this I have set up a kind of altar situation. With singing bowls and incense, I invited people to join in the tea ritual. For my performances I used a samovar and my own self-made tea service (pot and tea bowls made of earthenware).
Part I
Happening at Gallery Hinterconti, Hamburg
(04.07.2020)
Part II
Group Exhibition at Xpon-Art Gallery, Hamburg
(16. – 31.07.2020)
Part III
Performance at Xpon-Art Gallery, Hamburg
(23.07.2020)
Fotos: Kathrin Klein
Sitting on the cushions in the shop window of the X-Pon-Art gallery, the visitors have the opportunity to listen to the audio piece via the headphones. In the cross-legged position, they are able to follow to the inhaling and exhaling of the people who breathed together in the happening a month earlier in the Hinterconti Gallery. The view of the recipients goes from the window bench either out of the gallery onto the street.
Part of the work was a collective breathing happening. On the floor of the entrance
hall, 8 people at a time were invited to breathe together for 15 minutes together on a
large sheet of linen.
Composition for 12 birds
Collaboration with Dachhain Hamburg and WeField
27.08.2022
Soundinstallation for 12 Soundboxes and 12 mp3-players installed on the tree trunks.
12 x 30min. Bird talks
St. Katherinen Kirchhof, Hamburg
Mönckebergstrasse 2-4, Hamburg
www.bit.ly/3cwMxiJ
Fotos: Lea Mork
In a participatory procession of 50 trees the audio installation was heard. In cooperation with Dachhain Hamburg, WeField and the open collective LU’UM, the plants moved from St. Catherine’s Church through the city centre to the former Karstadt Sport building on 27 August 2022 via paths, streets and escalators to find a new home on the roof as a forest.
During the walk through the city centre, the sound installation could be heard between the trees. The quiet sounds of the tree forest and the birds mix with the sounds of the city centre. Each tree has been equipped with the voice of a bird species. The selected bird species are all endangered species of Hamburg’s inner city.
Birds recorded: Blackbird, Blue Tit, Lapwing, Swift, House Martin,
Wood Pigeon, Robin, Avocet, Chaffinch, Starling, Sand Martin,
Peregrine Falcon, Wren
interactive audio-sculpture
installation / Audiopiece
(5:11min.)
2020
Release Date: 29th October 2020
Exhibition “Hermes Hemmnis”
Galerie Grindelalle, Hamburg
Radio Sound Art Festival
02. — 10.09.2023
https://floatingtransmissions.de
https://www.instagram.com/floatingtransmissions
Artistic Direction & Concept
Funded by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg
At the beginning of September 2023, the MS Stubnitz was transformed into a floating radio station. In experimental artistic formats, the “river space” was broadcasted via FM and other protocols. Around 70 participating artists presented their work. The result was a live radioart programme consisting of artistic contributions – from multimedia sound sculptures to immersive performances on the Elbe and Bille rivers with cross-city broadcasts. Alongside sound installations that explored the city’s soundscapes in a variety of ways, workshops and participatory projects that develop in a processual way took place.
Participating artists: Benjamin van Bebber, DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult (Radio Revolten), Dong Zhou, Eliza Wagener, Felicity Mangan, Felix Jung, Felix Kubin, Felix Raeithel, Gabi Schaffner, Hermes Hemmnis, Hye-Eun Kim, Jack Bardwell, Jacopo Assam, Jan Wegmann, Junya Fuyita, Alexander Iliashenko, Alex Hawthorn, Kathrin Dröppelmann, Konstantin Bessonov, Kurt Auffermann, Leo Hofmann, Lina von Jarun- towski, Liv Neumann, Ludwig Bergerm Lukatoyboy, Maren Stocklöw, Margaux Weiß, Michaela Melián, Michael Dietrich, Michael Schroller, Monika Orpik, Museum of No Art, Niko de Paula Lefort, Nina Gohl, Pablo Diserens, Paula Schopf, Peter D. Abayomi, Phuong-Dan, Radna Rumping, Sarah Washington, Sophie Allerding, Tilo Kremer, Ulf Freyhoff. (among others)
FLOATING TRANSMISSIONS presented aesthetic approaches as a “floating radio station” to enable sensory experiences with auditory media in immersive environments. The programme, which temporarily floats on the Elbe and Bille rivers, is complemented by concert evenings and curated sound listening sessions with Hamburg DJs and labels. The formats were transmitted on Floating Transmissions Radio, Freies Sender Kombinat FSK, HALLO: Radio and TIDE.radio, as well as on independent radio stations across Germany.
Radio Performance on the deck of the MS Stubnitz Video Still: NDR Hamburg
/ NEW NOW FESTIVAL
Performance / Soundinstallation
Zeche Zollverein, UNESCO Weltkulturerbe, Essen
01. — 04.06.2023
Fotos: Dirk Rose
During a walk through the colliery grounds, various herbs and pioneer plants were touched and identified. The subsequent synaesthetic tea-sound performance consists of a tea ritual in which the plants were also experienced aurally. The sound installation is a composition of sonifications of biological data of the plants and the transformation into sounds of analogue and digital instruments.
NEW NOW is a biennial festival for digital art at the UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein. It transforms the coking plant into a production site for digital art. NEW NOW invited artists under the topic Hyper Natural Forces to show new works in this environment and to produce site-specific works.
CURRENT ARTISTIC PROJECT
2019 – ongoing
Video- & Soundinstallation with Sculptures, silicone and plaster moulds
Since 2019, I have been documenting direct water contact points on the coasts and shores of seas, lakes and rivers in various cities and countries, including Lagos (Nigeria), Massiaru (Estonia), Marseille (France), Kiel, Lauenburg (Germany) and others.
Video- & Soundinstallation
Group exhibition “Planetary Thinking” in collaboration with
the Goethe Institute Nigeria and the University of Lagos
28.10.2022
Video Installation: 3:30min video loop
252 empty plastic water bottles, nylon cord, fan
Lagoon Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
www.thenationonlineng.net/unilag-hosts-student-artists-from-german-nigeria
A curtain of 21 hanging water bottle chains serves as a projection surface for a three-min- ute video loop. It shows the waves of water in the Lagos lagoon, the transition from land to sea. The visual composition is supported by the sound of the waves and a fan that makes the curtain of bottles vibrate slightly.
Lagos produces around 13,000 tonnes of waste every day. Much of it is plastic bottles, which often end up in the waterways, blocking natural drainage as they make their way to the sea.
Soundinstallation Massia, Massiaru, Estonia
Sonic Garden Sound Workshop Exhibition
20. — 29.07.2023
Multichannel Soundinstallation
for 8 Soundspeakers in 8 trees, 10min. loop
Includes voice and field recordings with special microphones.
Recorded over several days in a bog near Massiaru, Estonia.
Funded by Erasmus+ in cooperation with EKA (Estonian Academy of Arts)
During a residency in Massia, Estonia, and a week-long stay deep in the bog in the Massiaru area, a multichannel sound collage was created, depicting the ripples of the bog water and conveying the intimate perceptual situation created by the isolation. The site of the installation is the entrance hall of the former Massia School, now a residence for artists. Eight loudspeakers are installed on the trees of the entrance avenue for the multichannel sound work. Upon entering the avenue, the impression is of diving into a tunnel of waves. Walking through the avenue, the acoustic waveform plays with the movement of the body and the ears between the trees.
Mellifluous Signs II
Multichannel Soundinstallation
07 I 2023
Graduate Show HFBK, Hamburg
3 fog effects and light dimmer modulation 10min. loop
In cooperation with Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI) Bremerhaven,
Scripps Institute San Diego and ETH Zürich
Fotos: S. Hendricks (AWI Bremerhaven)
Video documentation: Sarah Drath
The immersive audio installation Mellifluous Signs turns the melting of glaciers into a multi-sensory experience. The 10-minute quadraphonic 4.1 multichannel audio installation consists of field recordings of various sonic phenomena of melting glacier ice. In collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven (AWI), the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego and the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zurich, Nordholz was provided with sound recordings from the Morteratsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps and the Arctic in Greenland. The recordings were made using a variety of techniques, including special recordings with hydrophones, underwater microphones, waterproof Lavier microphones, contact microphones and the like.
These different recordings are arranged into a symphony – a kind of requiem for the glaciers in a 31-track composition that increases in “melting intensity” over time and repeats itself in the form of a loop. An introductory “drop symphony” is heard, which on a metaphorical level appear as tears and merge into a flow. Different flow speeds and strengths rub against each other until the fine bursting of air bubbles in the ice becomes more present and a singing and humming of the ice becomes audible. This type of oscillation or vibration can be recorded in glacial ice when ice melt increases dramatically, similar to a volcano about to erupt. These humming (warning) signals lead to the calving of the ice shelf into the ocean. The resulting low frequencies are felt in the room on white pedestals and on the floor as vibrations. In the context of climate change, these sounds can be interpreted as acoustic signals of the memento mori. The use of floor mist, which over time turns into haze and rises and floats in the uniformly white space, completes the immersive experience, making the consequences of climate change multi-layered and synaesthetic.
Soundinstallation Part I
ClimateArtFest 2022, 08. — 16.10.2022
Arca Futuris, Sandtorhafen, HafenCity, Hamburg
www.climateartfe.st
Audiopiece for 2 Soundboxes, 60min. loop
In cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI) Bremerhaven, the Scripps Institute in San Diego and the ETH Zürich
Fotos: Maximilian Glas
Mellifluous Signs II
Multichannel Soundinstallation
07 I 2023
Graduate Show HFBK, Hamburg
3 fog effects and light dimmer modulation 10min. loop
In cooperation with Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI) Bremerhaven,
Scripps Institute San Diego and ETH Zürich
Fotos: S. Hendricks (AWI Bremerhaven)
Video documentation: Sarah Drath
The immersive audio installation Mellifluous Signs turns the melting of glaciers into a multi-sensory experience. The 10-minute quadraphonic 4.1 multichannel audio installation consists of field recordings of various sonic phenomena of melting glacier ice. In collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven (AWI), the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego and the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zurich, Nordholz was provided with sound recordings from the Morteratsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps and the Arctic in Greenland. The recordings were made using a variety of techniques, including special recordings with hydrophones, underwater microphones, waterproof Lavier microphones, contact microphones and the like.
These different recordings are arranged into a symphony – a kind of requiem for the glaciers in a 31-track composition that increases in “melting intensity” over time and repeats itself in the form of a loop. An introductory “drop symphony” is heard, which on a metaphorical level appear as tears and merge into a flow. Different flow speeds and strengths rub against each other until the fine bursting of air bubbles in the ice becomes more present and a singing and humming of the ice becomes audible. This type of oscillation or vibration can be recorded in glacial ice when ice melt increases dramatically, similar to a volcano about to erupt. These humming (warning) signals lead to the calving of the ice shelf into the ocean. The resulting low frequencies are felt in the room on white pedestals and on the floor as vibrations. In the context of climate change, these sounds can be interpreted as acoustic signals of the memento mori. The use of floor mist, which over time turns into haze and rises and floats in the uniformly white space, completes the immersive experience, making the consequences of climate change multi-layered and synaesthetic.
Soundinstallation Part I
ClimateArtFest 2022, 08. — 16.10.2022
Arca Futuris, Sandtorhafen, HafenCity, Hamburg
www.climateartfe.st
Audiopiece for 2 Soundboxes, 60min. loop
In cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI) Bremerhaven, the Scripps Institute in San Diego and the ETH Zürich
Fotos: Maximilian Glas