Robertina Šebjanič’s immersive sonic installations and environments often create spaces where human and nature or human and non-human creatures meet, exploring their relationships and interconnected worlds, but also tensions between these ecologies.

Tidal Whispers: Busan's Oceanic Tales is a new immersive sound installation created specifically for the Sea Art Festival, and bringing together underwater sounds and sounds from marine life collected by the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), alongside human voices and song.

By engaging in a cross-empathic sympathy exploration of concepts and analytical methods from the marine world, Tidal Whispers: Busan's Oceanic Tales delves into more-than-human oceanic ecologies, geographies, and cultures as an entangled web of interdependencies in planetary watery imaginaries.

Interdisciplinary and poetic, the work serves as an activation of empathic sympathy towards oceanic creatures that reside beneath the waves and express their messages through the poetry of Their songs while reflecting deeply on our actions and their direct impact on the seas and oceans. Robertina’s work, exploring animal-human and interspecies communication through interdisciplinary research and art-science exchange, addresses ecological consequences and underwater noise pollution in oceans and seas across the world.

Tidal Whispers: Busan's Oceanic Tales weaves together aquatic and human stories, sciences and mythologies presenting and celebrating the resilience of marine species, while opening up a world view, where all creatures and living entities have a shared experience and are deeply connected, no matter how small or large, visible or invisible they are.

Credits
Artist: Robertina Šebjanič
Text, music, textile, audio: Robertina Šebjanič (SIovenia)
Narrators, voice: Polona Torkar (Slovenia) and Pilljae Kim (Slovenia / South Korea)
Recording of voice and mastering: Rok Kovatch (Slovenia)
Field recordings: KIOST | Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology
Architecture support of the installation: studioentropia