What can be learned from animal communication? How do we understand animals ? Can water be a being? What can a cod concert sound like?

Animals communicate amongst each other. There is also important communication between species, we immediately recognise when animal is sad, happy or scared. Animals’ communication offer new perspectives on language and a peek into a fascinating non-human world.

Per Hüttner and Robert Oostenveld present a new performance that looks at animal communication. In it they use the movement of the fish in the nearby fish tank to influence sound and moving images in real time. The images come from the fish in the tank as well and the majority of the sounds are from fish and water, including cods’ mating calls.

Per Huttner has also curated a program in close dialogue with Robert Oostenveld and the museum, that allows for different perspectives on animal communication. Learn more about how seal pups communicate and how Water can be viewed as the first form of consciousness on the planet. Meet Nobel Prize Nominee Tiokasin Ghosthorse, artists and researchers. New technology meets ancient wisdom about how we see the animals whom we share the planet with.

The event forms a part of the Science Festival in Gothenburg.

Program, Thursday April 18, 2024
17.30 Koen de Reus, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen: Communication among non-humans
18.00 Per Hüttner and Robert Oostenveld: Concert with cod mating calls and 3D rendered images.
18.30 Tiokasin Ghosthorse: Water and Animals – a Lakota Perspective

 

Sjöfartsmuseet Akvariet

Ocean Lab
Karl Johansgatan 1-3
Gothenburg