Category: The Art of Resonance

The Art of Resonance: Max Eastley & Rie Nakajima

The research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
Tue 14 October 2025 16:00

Max Eastley and Rie Nakajima each have long-standing individual artistic practices centered around sound and sculpture. Max Eastley is an internationally recognised artist who combines kinetic sculpture and sound into a unique art form. His sculptures exist on the border between the natural environment and human intervention and use the driving forces of electricity, wind, water and ice. Rie Nakajima creates sounds using combination of motorised devices and daily objects, either in installation form or during performances. Fusing sculpture and sound, her artistic practice is open to chance and the influence of others. Both artists have performed with numerous other artists and musicians, and started playing together in February 2025. The day after this listening sessions they will be performing at STUK, Leuven.

The Art of Resonance: Mark Peter Wright

From November 2024 onward, the research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
26 March 2025 16:00

Mark Peter Wright is an artist, researcher and writer working at the intersection of sound arts, experimental pedagogy and critical theory. His book Listening After Nature is published by Bloomsbury, 2022/23. Wright’s practice investigates relations between humans and animals, geographies and technologies, observers and subjects. Ongoing questions include: how does environmental sound convey complex geopolitical meaning? How can technology be practiced with an eco-critical sensitivity and how might listening operate beyond the human? Working between the field and lab, site and gallery, he is committed to amplifying forms of power and poetics within the creative use of sound and documentary media. In addition to his own practice-based research he collaborates extensively. With Helena Hunter he works under the name Matterlurgy on cross disciplinary projects and exhibitions. With Salomé Voegelin he co-convened Points of Listening, a series of public events exploring listening and sound-making as an artful form of pedagogy. With Angus Carlyle he works on projects and performances that explore the relations of listening and recording, nature and aesthetics, site and studio.