Sissel Marie Tonn
10 Nov 2016 - 30 Apr 2017
Sissel Marie Tonn during installation of The Intimate Earthquake Archive, 2016
Photo Marcel de Buck
Photo Marcel de Buck
Construction of The Intimate Earthquake Archive, November 2016
Photo Peter Cox
Photo Peter Cox
Sissel Marie Tonn during installation of The Intimate Earthquake Archive, 2016. Photo Marcel de Buck
SISSEL MARIE TONN
The Intimate Earthquake Archive
Sissel Marie Tonn in Het Oog
10 November 2016 – 30 April 2017
Winner Theodora Niemeijer prize 2016
Sissel Marie Tonn is the winner of the Theodora Niemeijer prize 2016. She will develop her project The Intimate Earthquake Archive in Het Oog (The Eye) in the Van Abbemuseum for half a year.
The Intimate Earthquake Archive
The Intimate Earthquake Archive is an interactive installation by Sissel Marie Tonn that allows visitors to access and experience earthquakes recorded in Groningen, which are related to gas drilling. Tonn has created an archive of the man-made earthquakes from seismic data registered by the KNMI. The archive translates this data into a composition of vibrations, enabling visitors to experience these man-made earthquakes through sensation. In her artistic practice Tonn explores the relationship between human experience and an environment undergoing change.
Explanation and demonstration
Every Sunday from 11.000 until 17.00 Sissel Marie Tonn is in the museum to explain more about her project in 'Het Oog'. You can also experience the effect of the installation (based on earthquake data) on your own body.
The Intimate Earthquake Archive consists of a radio transmitter system that transforms the core samples in the installation into interactive stations. When visitors wear the 'tactile earthquake vest' they will be able to receive the data transmitted from each of the core sample capsules as they move around the space. The vest has embedded transducers which compose an 'earthquake' of vibrations on the body via electromagnetic currents.
Visitors may enter at their own risk, since people with pacemakers or other conditions may be triggered by electromagnetic vibration on the body.
Are you a member of We Are Public? Then this event is free for you! Show your We Are Public card at our cash register and recieve your ticket.
Sissel Marie Tonn
Sissel Marie Tonn (1986) is a Danish artist living in The Hague. She works with multi-media installation, drawing and writing, and her processual approach is driven by a great deal of curiosity and the possibilities of building relationships across fields. Her work builds upon an interest in ‘presence’ within ecologies undergoing subtle or profound changes. Within this discourse the work explores these environmental (often humanly induced) changes, extending the public debates towards epistemological issues connecting these events to the body and its sensing of presence. She completed a master in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2015. She is the co-founder of the artist initiative Platform for Thought in Motion together with artist Jonathan Reus.
The Intimate Earthquake Archive
Sissel Marie Tonn in Het Oog
10 November 2016 – 30 April 2017
Winner Theodora Niemeijer prize 2016
Sissel Marie Tonn is the winner of the Theodora Niemeijer prize 2016. She will develop her project The Intimate Earthquake Archive in Het Oog (The Eye) in the Van Abbemuseum for half a year.
The Intimate Earthquake Archive
The Intimate Earthquake Archive is an interactive installation by Sissel Marie Tonn that allows visitors to access and experience earthquakes recorded in Groningen, which are related to gas drilling. Tonn has created an archive of the man-made earthquakes from seismic data registered by the KNMI. The archive translates this data into a composition of vibrations, enabling visitors to experience these man-made earthquakes through sensation. In her artistic practice Tonn explores the relationship between human experience and an environment undergoing change.
Explanation and demonstration
Every Sunday from 11.000 until 17.00 Sissel Marie Tonn is in the museum to explain more about her project in 'Het Oog'. You can also experience the effect of the installation (based on earthquake data) on your own body.
The Intimate Earthquake Archive consists of a radio transmitter system that transforms the core samples in the installation into interactive stations. When visitors wear the 'tactile earthquake vest' they will be able to receive the data transmitted from each of the core sample capsules as they move around the space. The vest has embedded transducers which compose an 'earthquake' of vibrations on the body via electromagnetic currents.
Visitors may enter at their own risk, since people with pacemakers or other conditions may be triggered by electromagnetic vibration on the body.
Are you a member of We Are Public? Then this event is free for you! Show your We Are Public card at our cash register and recieve your ticket.
Sissel Marie Tonn
Sissel Marie Tonn (1986) is a Danish artist living in The Hague. She works with multi-media installation, drawing and writing, and her processual approach is driven by a great deal of curiosity and the possibilities of building relationships across fields. Her work builds upon an interest in ‘presence’ within ecologies undergoing subtle or profound changes. Within this discourse the work explores these environmental (often humanly induced) changes, extending the public debates towards epistemological issues connecting these events to the body and its sensing of presence. She completed a master in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2015. She is the co-founder of the artist initiative Platform for Thought in Motion together with artist Jonathan Reus.