{"id":7527,"date":"2026-09-01T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:03:15","slug":"kokkonen_urvogel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/?p=7527","title":{"rendered":"Merja Kokkonen: &#8220;Urvogel&#8221; (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_7549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7549\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/merja-kokkonen_dannynedkova-3614_800-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[7527]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7549 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/merja-kokkonen_dannynedkova-3614_800-1.jpg\" alt=\"merja kokkonen dannynedkova 3614 800\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/merja-kokkonen_dannynedkova-3614_800-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/merja-kokkonen_dannynedkova-3614_800-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/merja-kokkonen_dannynedkova-3614_800-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Danny Nedkova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 10px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/?p=7387\">German<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 10px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facilitating a moment of actualisation within <em>mete\u014dra musik\u0113<\/em>, Finnish musician and sound artist Merja Kokkonen (aka Islaja) introduces a figure that shifts the sediments of time towards a digital future. Her performance \u201cUrvogel\u201d (German for primordial bird, <em>archaeopteryx<\/em>) centres on a \u2018techno-shamanic\u2019 persona \u2013 a hybrid creature emerging from the fossil record of the computational turn and the cybernetic laboratory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the core of this performance is a sonic costume \u2013 a wearable instrument \u2013 crafted from recycled computer parts, circuit boards, and electronic sensors. Its digital plumage transforms the artist\u2019s body into a sensitive antenna for her environment. Equipped with motion sensors and environmental data inputs, the costume generates real-time granular synthesis that blends Kokkonen\u2019s movements with the park\u2019s atmospheric conditions into a <em>czirping<\/em>, electro-organic soundscape.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Merja\u2019s performance is a tender act of interception in the course of public space \u2013 a gesture of adaptation and interaction.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roaming Sch\u00f6nbornpark like a bird exploring its territory, she engages in a tactile dialogue with the so-called \u2018tech-trash\u2019 of the Anthropocene and the eternal rhythms of the <em>mete\u014dra<\/em>. In doing so, this archetype of the augur re-enchants the technological artifacts we discard, proposing a (post-)prosumer mythology where the ghosts in the machine learn to whistle with the wind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 100px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Costume: Ulla Nurminen (design), Jarkko R\u00e4s\u00e4nen (electronics).<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Material: Polyamide, wire, functional electronics, control panels, CD fragments.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Facilitating a moment of actualisation within mete\u014dra musik\u0113, Finnish musician and sound artist Merja Kokkonen (aka Islaja) introduces a figure that shifts the sediments of time towards a digital future. Her performance \u201cUrvogel\u201d (German for primordial bird, archaeopteryx) centres on a \u2018techno-shamanic\u2019 persona \u2013 a hybrid creature emerging from the fossil record of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,975],"class_list":["post-7527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-merja-kokkonen","tag-schonbornpark"],"wp-worthy-pixel":{"ignored":false,"public":"2cd451efbacc4a14b226c5f7abce8889","server":"vg09.met.vgwort.de","url":"https:\/\/vg09.met.vgwort.de\/na\/2cd451efbacc4a14b226c5f7abce8889"},"wp-worthy-type":"normal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7550,"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions\/7550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.czirpczirp.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}