{"id":9194,"date":[1175],"date_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/?post_type=event&#038;p=9194"},"modified":"2024-12-08T01:08:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:08:43","slug":"a-forest-lament","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/event\/a-forest-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"A Forest Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to climate change and century-long monoculture plantings, European forests are in despair. Trees are dying, and the ecology is changing at a rapid speed, which also affects the acoustic environment \u2013 the forests are turning more and more silent. In\u00a0<\/span><strong><i>A Forest Lament<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the sonic sphere of the Thuringian Forest in Germany, a dying monoculture plantation, will be re-created with so-called hunting calls or game-calling instruments that imitate different animal calls. Game-calling instruments have a millennia-old tradition in various cultures of luring animals closer to the respective hunter\u2019s hideout spot and are considered to be the first instruments built by humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will listen to a vulnerable version &#8211; one we want to believe in but which is not real &#8211; of mimetic whistles that sound out stories about power relations in human-more-than-human interactions, false European forest imaginations and ecological grief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00b0\u00b0\u00b0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Nele M\u00f6ller<\/strong> (she\/her) is a Brussels-based <a href=\"https:\/\/nelemoeller.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artist<\/a> working primarily in sound, performance and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on forest conversations, historical nature inscriptions, critical field recording and listening practices. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Her research project \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kuleuven.be\/portal\/en\/project\/3H210577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forest Echoes Back<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018 is embedded in the artistic research cluster \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deephistoriesfragilememories.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deep histories fragile memories<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018 and oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by climate change and an adherent bark beetle infestation.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9196,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"lieu":[1344],"region":[1307],"event_type":[1421],"edition":[1531],"class_list":["post-9194","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artiste-nele-moller","date-1175","lieu-botanique-witloof-bar-en","region-bruxelles-en","event_type-performance-en","edition-2025-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9194\/revisions\/9199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/date?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"lieu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lieu?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasemaineduson.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}