(Re-)experience the TRED 2023 Conference Through Art

During the TRED conference in 2023, sound artist Kristina Mau Hansen and visual artist Dafni Petratou got inspiration to make a collaborative audio-visual artwork.

Kristina: The soundscape work weaves together voices of a diverse group of participants who share their reflections, metaphors and haikus of transdisciplinarity. I want to thank all of you who shared your voice with me! I recorded one particular metaphor which resonated so much with me that it became the title of this piece. As I deeply love jazz myself, “A Jazzband of Scientists’ seemed the right match to both convey some sensations during the conference, but also one interpretation of transdisciplinarity. The question remains: What could science become if it takes inspiration from jazz music and embraces the playfulness, freedom, individual expressions, improvisations, harmonies and dissonances jazz has to offer? And what would it feel like to you?

Listen here

Dafni: While listening back to the recordings, I concluded that most metaphors that are mentioned converge to a few themes:

Dialogue:
Sitting along a round table, sharing ideas. Those transform like colours being mixed. Or they make room for new ones, like shapes scraped off a picture.

Rules:
Art and science have this in common: there are rules that limit their practice. Rules which we must adjust, redefine, object to. They are part of the game, boundaries within which creativity is released. A common language, or tuned musicians sharing a canvas.

And

Mixing:
Liquid components coming together in a single vessel making organic forms that obey rules of their own. They interact and merge, creating a new substance.

In the end, visual and sound art, same as transdisciplinary collaborations, are forms of collage; the final result comes from putting together layers of shapes trimmed to create a meaningful result. That is why this piece is named ‘Polyphony’.

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About us

Kristina Mau Hansen is a sound designer, field recordist and artist. Her work focuses on the relationships between people and places and questions the role of sound in making memories, identity and everyday life.

Contact:
e: k.mauhansen@gmail.com
w: www.kristinamauhansen.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristina_mau_hansen/

Dafni Petratou is an architect and visual artist with an MSc degree in Land and Water Management. She works with a variety of media such as clay, metal wire, acrylic, oil, and watercolor. Her work focuses on creating a level playing field between arts, science, education and society.

Contact:
e: inkcapart@outlook.com
w: https://linktr.ee/inkcap_dafnipetratou
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dafni_petratou/