08/05/2026
Residenssikuulumisia toukokuulta / residency greetings:
"During our Norpas residency in Taalintehdas this May, we will explore and construct both new and old narratives that engage with the landscape through more-than-human perspectives. Working across sound, film, writing and performance, we adopt a magpie like approach, collecting, foraging, and recomposing fragments from the surrounding archipelago. These materials will form the basis of a project that reflects on both the speculative and real “engines” shaping island life.
Our process embraces non-linear storytelling, using wordplay, experimental film, and performative gestures to move beyond conventional narrative structures. In doing so, we aim to attune to the voices, rhythms, and agencies embedded within the environment itself. Our output is still being considered but we hope to form performative, sonic and visual material from this residency. While the final form of our output is still evolving, we hope this residency will generate performative, sonic, and visual material.
Pheobe riley law is a sound & installation artist working across performance, sculpture, photography, and moving image. She creates dialogues between bodies, borders, and devices to reveal new forms of relation. She is particularly interested in non-human actors, inanimate objects, and how human activity is shaped by systems of boundary-creation. Through playful inversions, she highlights the object-hood of humanity and the agency of the “inanimate”. Her latest performance installation, Vegetal Empathy, is a speculative simulation of the garden, exploring our entanglement with more-than-human entities through data, micro-listening and acts of tending. Recent ongoing and previous projects include Vegetal Empathy (supported by the Sound Generator award; curator for Let Us Cook (Concertgebouw Brugge and installation for vast, slender boundaries (Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg.
Tam lines is an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and writer exploring the tension between our "real lives" and online space. Through their musical alter ego, Tam Lin, they attempt to capture the dissociation, anxiety and joy of this split existence. Their work often focuses on the boundaries between the human and nonhuman, new materialism, cybernetics, and online cultures to generate playful, poetic, and introspective projects. They have produced research and audio for the likes of the Barbican, Container Magazine, Sonic Scope Journal, and Lit Magazine."
