A joint inclusion project of the OSTRALE - Center for Contemporary Art and the sound artist and scientist Rüdiger Wenk.
In 2022, we opened our Nature Parkour at OSTRALE.Basis in Dresden-Übigau - an educational trail focusing on our natural environment and the mindful and sustainable use of resources. Eleven graphically and content-wise designed boards convey specific areas of this natural environment (e.g. wild corners, insect hotels or the compost).
(For more info, read on here: Nature Parkour)
With the help of the Erlebnisraum Natur project, we want to make this parkour accessible for and with people with special needs, particularly in the areas of hearing and sight, and thus make it possible to experience nature with all the senses.
Information event on Wednesday, March 13 at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Registration requested
Workshops:
▶Participation free of charge
▶for adults
▶ each 10:00-13:30 (incl. lunch from 11:30)
▶ Barrier-free
▶ for people with all degrees of disability
▶ with sign language interpreter
▶ Transportation can be organized by OSTRALE if required
Workshop leader: Hartmut Dorschner, Jo Siamon Salich
Registration at post@ostrale.de, 0351 65 337 63
1st workshop - sound development April 19-21
(2nd date April 26-28)
What does sound actually feel like? The first workshop is dedicated to this question and deals with the development of a sound level. With the help of this construction, we can perceive how nature, for example a plant, sounds. Microphones and other sensors are used to obtain information from the plant itself, the soil and the environment. Structure-borne sound transducers transmit these acoustic signals into vibrations, which are then transferred to wooden platforms where you can lie down to listen to them. In this way, an individual vibration pattern is created for each plant and each environment, with the help of which we can immerse ourselves in the world of those who hear differently.
As part of the workshop, there will also be an opportunity for participants to develop a sound structure from the video transmissions of the various natural objects. It is therefore a transformation of moving image information into a sound experience.
2nd workshop - image processing May 3-5
(2nd date May 10-12)
By image processing we mean in the broadest sense the processing of video information that is transmitted in real time from the natural environment into the experience space. The video transmission is used to visualize sound structures. Sound modules that have already been developed are therefore used to change and modify the video image.
The way in which this is influenced will be examined in the workshop. The background for this implementation is to make the sound of natural objects accessible to participants with a hearing impairment.
3rd workshop - room installation May 24-26
This workshop will deal with how the elements of sound and visual information are installed in the experience space - what is my own personal experience and how can I convey this further. This room installation should serve directly to enable a sensory experience. Participants with different disabilities should have an immersive experience here and, if possible, enter into an exchange.
Sound structures can be experienced through a soundboard on which you can lie. Lying on the floor, the visualization can be experienced as a ceiling projection and the sound is also transmitted acoustically to loudspeakers. Tactile, acoustic and visual perception centers are thus addressed.
Opening of the presentation, Inclusion Festival June 7-9
Exhibition June 7 - August 10
The OSTRALE.basis is a place for contemporary art and culture. With the Erlebnisraum Natur project, we are helping to create a permanent meeting place for integrative art and cultural mediation, which will be expanded in further projects in the long term.
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