Edaphon (2023)
Christine Hvidt (DK/NL)

Soil is a fundamental support for all life on earth and provides the habitat for countless organisms that form a highly sophisticated ecosystem. Unamplified human sensory observations cannot capture what is going on in soil, but with artistic augmentation, this world can be unveiled.

Edaphon is a sound installation exploring the living soil and relations within the seemingly silent underground ecological systems. The installation consists of multiple ceramic coil sculptures, each of them producing fragmented sounds coming from moving bodies under the surface. Edaphon is the aggregate of organisms living in the soil — the vast and diverse underground network of plants, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, earthworms, arthropods, and mammals. Visitors to the installation are allowed to access a place beyond the human-scaled environment. Edaphon becomes an instrument for listening and giving careful attention to the hidden world beneath us.

About the artist

Christine Hvidt (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist from Denmark based in Den Haag. Within her work she gets fascinated by overlapping lifeworlds between different people and planetary creatures. Currency, she questions the conceptions of ‘human’ and ‘nature’ through ideas of symbiotic relations and co-evolution in the Master's programme at the Artscience Interfaculty. She engages with relations such as the environmental and social aspects of ecological systems. According to Hvidt, we human beings need to re-position and re-member ourselves within the social network of planetary ecosystems and adjust ourselves to regenerative behaviour.

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