2023
T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society (Tessa Zettel & Sumugan Sivanesan)
Performative 3-day workshop, installation & performance
Part of ‘Glitchz’ Pixelache Festival 2023, Kaapelitehdas/Cable Factory & Kitchen Lab Tarvo, Helsinki.
The T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society returned to the Octo-Biozone in 2091/2023 for a rejuvenating Summer Beat Camp & Sound Bathhouse on the site of the former Kaapelitehdas (with special expedition to Tarvo island!). This year our Photosynth Social Club offered an exploration of the area’s unique post-industrial-techno-nature-cultural surrounds, inviting local lichen-kin into a program of convivial sonic and somatic experimentation. Participants snapped symbio-selfies that were processed and sonified using free/ libre open-source software, seeking out correspondences, patterns and rhythms between images, textures, voices and field recordings. The camp culminated in a sound bathhouse ‘soak session’ at Cable Factory, where campers collectively performed the results to a live audience within the festival program.