Hannah Arendt
To accompany Richard Saltoun Gallery's 'On Hannah Arendt: Eight Proposals for Exhibition', Laima draws on her multifaceted identity as a producer, musician, activist, artist, mother and teacher to create eight unique sound pieces in response to each exhibition in the programme and each chapter in Arendt's book. Titled collectively as Infinite past, infinite future and NOW, the works together engage with themes of time, culture, truth and spirituality.
Amelia
‘On Hannah Arendt: The Conquest of Space’
15 February - 26 March 2022
For this piece, I've let the machine flow. What if the machines could decide? I insist for Amelia (AI) take me back to darkness, where we humans could merge in a metaphysical realm.
Falling
'On Hannah Arendt: Truth and Politics'
1 December 2021 - 5 February 2022
Lies have always been a tool for Politics, often used to deceive the enemy. In the modern world, lies become a tool to build a false image. We lose ground, the lack of truth. All that is left is our wander around so we can develop our own opinions. Meanwhile, the truthtellers are endangered, flying above us all.
This Is
'On Hannah Arendt: The Crisis in Culture'
28 September - 13 November 2021
"This Is" refers to Culture as a collective consciousness cultivated by humans and nature. It is non-consumable, it is long-lasting. Above us, Culture should be available for all, but it is not. Loneliness and misinformation lead the majority to entertainment.
Everything Grows From Darkness
'On Hannah Arendt: The Crisis in Education'
10 August - 18 September 2021
"Everything that lives emerges from the darkness and (...) needs the security of darkness to grow at all" - Hannah Arendt. Be it the womb or the soil; darkness is the state of being of growth. In "Everything Grows from Darkness", Laima is inspired by holding and keeping the telluric realm to allow expansion, while the outside world repeats its patterns, where nothing is new, disease of repeat.
We Are Here
'On Hannah Arendt: What is Freedom?'
15 June - 24 July 2021
We Are Here is Laima's fanfare response to Hannah Arendt's essay 'What is Freedom?’.
"We Are Here" is about being present for each other, being listened to, and listening to others. The music acts as a loop, resonating in one's mind. Is it the search for inner freedom or the assurance of outer freedom?"
No Pilot
'On Hannah Arendt: What is Authority?'
26 April - 6 June 2021
No Pilot is Laima's fanfare response to Hannah Arendt’s essay 'What Is Authority?'.
Authority is necessary but "authority" has been lost. What happens when there is no pilot? Maybe we drown, maybe we fall, maybe we find freedom. Rules are constituted to protect us all, but even then, is justice really made?
Amnesia
'On Hannah Arendt: The Concept of History'
18 March - 16 April 2021
In the Ancient World, extraordinary events defined history with impartiality, clarity and objectivity. The shift of the Modern Age sealed history as a human-made process, where man's actions are processes that have an impact on the world, thus defining history. Amnesia is about which actions have we been learning? Who are the humans that “make history”? Who are the humans that “make nature”? Who are the forgotten humans in this process? Although history and music seem linear in time and space, I find that the beauty is that they transcend time and space into a non-linear existence connecting with memory and remembrance. Amnesia (αμνησία) and Hysteria (υστερία) are Ancient Greek words that I use to play with language and sounds, inciting the power of memory and its lack.
Lack Of
'On Hannah Arendt: The Modern Age'
11 January – 26 February 2021
Lack of is a dreamy and meditative piece inspired by the idea that science unsettles truth since it is based on doubt and mistrust. Without passing judgement on this idea, Lack of ponders the losses and gains of this ‘lack of tradition’ or ‘lack of truth’ and suggests that, ultimately, the truth sits inside each one of us.
On Hannah Arendt
Eight Proposals for Exhibition
On Hannah Arendt is the complete catalogue of a 14-month program of
exhibitions, sonic interventions, virtual talks, and events dedicated to the
writings of German-born, American political philosopher Hannah Arendt
(1906-1975). Organized by Richard Saltoun Gallery.