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hello, world! this is Ål Nik :)

Welcome to my documentation & collaboration space. This Wiki is created to give space for keeping a record of my artistic & research practice and to collaborate with fellow artists on projects. Happy to have you here!

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I have just installed this Mediawiki, so bear with me - it's a work-in-progress.

current ongoing projects

Some research projects and topics I am working on at the moment:

xpub: sound jams

[master XPUB research project] Sound Jams: Methods of Producing Collective Sound-Based Publications for Practitioners with Various Backgrounds [working title] is an exploration of experiments for the collaborative making of sound publications. For my research, I am facilitating various sound jams that I have designed, in order to test the methods in reality and understand what are the important factors when creating a sound-making experience for people from different backgrounds. What brings them together in sound creation and sharing? What elements of the structure and the process are vital for them to find a comfortable and welcoming space for experimentation? What can they take from the sound jams for their artistic and research practice?

By a sound jam, I understand any facilitated process of sound-making and publishing that includes more than one person. Its core principle is inclusivity: it is open to people with or without musical training and offers a structure in which everyone is invited to find a suitable role and space for experimentation. The process grants the makers the opportunity to create a sound publication as a group. This paper explores different sound jams as applied methods that provide such processes and a safe space for makers with various practices to open up to a moment of collective sound-making and sharing.

Wiki places about the research:

▶ sound jams
▶ sound jams documentation
▶ sound jams glossary

precarity

This topic is brought from my frustration of living in such an insecure state. However, there are also exciting and positive sides of constant change. Thus, I am experimenting and researching all the aspects of the current way of living - not knowing anything/much about the future and always on the edge of making the ends meet. During the last Summer, my friend and classmate Supisara and I made some experiments on this topic. See here:

▶ a tiny illustrated glossary of precarity

documentation & reflections

One of the reasons I installed this mediawiki on my server, was also to have a space to document my work, write some reflections of experiments and things that excited me, and to share it. Here is an index of those spaces around here.

_International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike // 8-3-2023 // rotterdam