Sound artist, Mikel R. Nieto discusses his project Dark Sound, and value and cost, hierarchy and consent in relation to the oil industry.


This event took place alongside PRAKSIS’s seventeenth residency, 'Climata - Capturing change at a time of ecological crisis'. Climata was developed with sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek and Goethe-Institut Norway and included collaborations with Norsk Teknisk Museum, Gruenrekorder, and Notam. This event is also part of the programme of the 'klima2+' exhibition at Teknisk museum. klima2+ addressed climate change by bringing together scientific perspectives, insights from the critical humanities and art, as well as inviting action through art interventions, practical workshops and activism.

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ABOUT MIKEL R. NIETO
Mikel R. Nieto is an artist, independent researcher and writer from San Sebastián. His work focuses on the sociocultural and political aspects of the act of listening and foregrounds field recordings as a means towards a radical and critical practice of phonography. He has frequently collaborated with Audiolab at Arteleku in San Sebastián on projects such as Soinumapa, the Basque Country Sound Map, and Hots! Radio. He has contributed texts on sound, noise, listening and musical networks to the Mediateletipos platform and in 2016 curated and coordinated The Listening Observatory in collaboration with José Luis Espejo and Xabier Erkizia, as part of Donostia / San Sebastián’s European Capital of Culture programmes. His most recent book, A soft hiss of this world (2019), developed in collaboration with anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Carmen Pardo, looks at disappearance through the sound of snowflakes in the landscape, and their description in Finnish language. Dark Sound and A soft hiss of this world are published by Gruenrekorder.