Urban Miscellanea
2020-2022, 2025
Urban Miscellanea is an experimental multimedia anthology that celebrates creativity situated within the urban.
2020/21: States of Apprehension
2021/22: Urban emergency / urban rhythms
2025: Archiving
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Eva Tisnikar2020/21
Sonus Urbana
Poetry; audio
Bio
Eva Tisinkar is a Slovenian filmmaker and researcher based in London with a background in interdisciplinary architectural research.
In her creative, as well as academic, work she interrogates the inherently spatial relations between technology, gender, and urban environment, and critically attunes to their intersections through experimental writing, photography, sound art and film.
She is interested in an interdisciplinary approach to architecture, art and writing, as well as combining digital design with philosophy and critical writing. She has also focused on theoretical and practical investigations of space with a through sound - employing a site specific approach for spatial analyses of layered sonic landscapes.
The everyday we live in is a world where knowledge formation as well as its transmission are inherently visual - to see means to understand. To focus on hearing then is to imagine, to wonder, to speculate, and to question.
Listening is a useful investigative tool for the built environment, especially in time of ecological crises and increasingly polarising attitudes in political discourse. Sonus Urbana is a project that establishes the act of listening as an affirmative attuning to the world, establishing the city as a living organism.
A short sound composition engages with sounds of public spaces in London before it was silenced due to the pandemic. A vertical cross-section of the seemingly unstoppable machinery of the city - the cars, underground trains, and airplanes - intertwined with bustling crowds of people, now takes on a new role.
The recording functions as an artefact of the everyday that had been lost in the world tackled by ecological and health crises. Each distinct sound carries within itself human, less-than and more-than human relations with the environment.
A short poem accompanying the drawn score further explores the positionality of the listening subject and the issues around agency. How do we rebuild the city after the crisis, and who or what do we include in the process?