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Hythlodaeus / Utopia

Stefaan van Biesen•
Geert Vermeire•
· Since 2015 ·
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Duration 19 minutes

1595259043.01 Hythlodaeus

CC-BY-NC: Stefaan van Biesen

Soundwalk ‘Hythlodaeus / Utopia’ composed out of the poem ‘Unfolding the City’ by Geert Vermeire and ‘Siren’ by Stefaan van Biesen. Voice and composition by Stefaan van Biesen. Field recordings by Geert Vermeire and Stefaan van Biesen. The name of the sound piece is inspired by the explorer of Utopia, originated during field recordings of walks of the artists in Venice and in Antwerp where Thomas More wrote his book. This digital material was composed to a soundscape for the Utopia sound project for Cities and Memory.

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Hosted by: Drifting bodies - Fluent Spaces, walking arts encounters/conference, Guimaraes (Portugal) - Made of Walking (VII)

Drifting Bodies / Fluent Spaces

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Stefaan van Biesen•

Stefaan van Biesen

 

Award winner SWS Grand Jury 2024

Since 1990 Stefaan van Biesen has made walks which he documents and displays in drawings, installations, photography, models, texts, videos and photographs. He regards the act of walking as a kind of subjective thought process in the urban and natural land...

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Geert Vermeire•

Geert Vermeire

co-founder of walk · listen · create (Belgium)

Founder Online Jury 2022 Online Jury 2023 Online Jury 2024

Geert Vermeire is a curator, poet and artist, moving constantly between Greece, Portugal and Brazil, with a focus on spatial writing, locative sound & performance and social practices. He develops collaborative processes, departing from the ethical in...

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