Ding-dong: Installation: Fishy Situationism

John Andrew Wilhite describes the installation as follows:

I just returned from a trip to Vesterålen, where I played some music with(?)/for(?)/to(?)/beside(?) Arctic Cod in sea pens-- we took a boat out and set up underwater speakers and microphone systems making it possible for them to hear me and vice versa.

But is it fair to expect meaningful artistic production from a "collaboration" with fish? Can we just decide that for them? Will they answer us, even just to say "No"? Or are we just confronted by another variation of our own echo, designing ways to draw others into our anthropogenic feedback loop.

"But we're trying to save u comrade Codfish!"

Hmm.

In other words and according to the Nmh website: "Critically engaging with thinkers and artists like Pauline Oliveros, Elizabeth Povinelli, Oxana Timofeeva, and Cornelius Cardew, musician and composer John Andrew Wilhite hopes to challenge contemporary artistic and scientific paradigms, investigating how our current "progressive" strategies and technologies for listening and collaboration may well be complicit with occidental societies extractive and administrative practices."

Hmm.

John-Andrew Wilhite

John Andrew Wilhite is an Oslo-based composer, double bassist, and sound artist. John is currently collaborating with musicians like Sofia Jernberg, Alpaca Ensemble, Derek Baron, but also with artists like manuel arturo abreu, Greyory Blake, and choreographers like Yohei Hamada. John has done some big shows at The Norwegian National Opera and The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and enjoys a big show indeed, but you're more likely to find him at Kafe Hærverk, or just playing in an attic room somewhere out of the way.