Retracing Traces – Rifandi Nugroho

Audiozine
First Published in Utrecht, 2022
Part of Fellowship of Situated Practice
Basis Voor Actuele Kunst

Retracing Traces is a compilation of field recordings that have been circulated around four Lahan Becek (wetlands) area, where the seafarer communities in Indonesia live & connected through the history of trade and threat of land reclamation. In the intermediate zone between land and water—such as estuaries, swamps, sands, and coral reefs—the seafarers transmit their memories, histories, and knowledge through the traces of their spatial practice in lieu of archival materialization. The method of making this work employs memorial practices of the communities as a pathway to the pedagogical imaginaries of an archive, specifically by using the site-specific sonic experience referred by seafarers to connect situations from one site to the other. The compilation of materials are used to the so called sonic-ethnographic workshop, as part of Troubling Archive group in "The Hauntologists" program in BAK Utrecht. It consists of sound mark annotation, orientation to the sound, and juxtaposition to the existing materials using the field recording process. At the end, the mobilized sound used to exchange stories, memories, and experiences between participants. The whole activities demonstrate the possibilities to transmit memories & knowledge through interaction, instead of looking into permanent objects, artifacts, or archives.

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