Lena C.
Resident Encounters (preliminary research)
2025 Cross-TIC Research Trajectory, Enschede, NL
Research-based artistic process, documentation & installation prototype
Resident Encounters is a process-driven research project developed during the Cross-TIC trajectory. It investigates the interactions and territorial negotiations between human and non-human residents in the backyard of a shared house. The work explores how human presence, routines, environment and the growth of the backyard weeds have influences on each other.
The project adopted an artistic, reflective methodology, combining ambient field recordings, video documentation, and small-scale sensor experiments. Through these methods, the project raised questions about control, coexistence, and the invisibility of slow ecological rhythms in daily life.
The staged outcome of this project in the trajectory includes a prototype installation that manipulated a granular synth patch with field recording audio and documented videos in response to movement calculated by light exposure, which reflects on mutual influence. The process shifted from interpreting data to documenting entanglements, and offered a grounding for future work in sensory engagement in artistic practice.
Project mentor: Jacco Borggreve
Consultants: Spela Petric, Francesco Nacchia
Additional support: Nicolas Toussaint
The preliminary research of this project was supported by Cross-TIC.