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The Academy of Rhythmorphology (ARm) studies rhythmicity as a form-finding force. We explore the internal and surrounding rhythms of the living, how they connect and oscillate and make form. ARm is also concerned with the rupture of external rhythms and their effects on life forms.

The Academy of Rhythmorphology is a collaborative initiative by artist Signe Lidén, biologist and media theorist Arjen Mulder and curator Hilde Methi that departed through an engagement with the intertidal zone along the shorelines of the Lofoten islands in 2019.

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Signe Lidén is an artist based in Oslo, Norway. Her work explores relations between place, sensing and sound. Through field recording, instrument building and conversations, she approaches place as a dynamic becoming produced by geological, biological and atmospheric processes, as well as social and economic relations. Her work spans from sound installations, video and performance to more documentary forms such as sound essays and archives.

Arjen Mulder is an independent writer living in Amsterdam (NL), with a background in botany, media theory and semiotics. His research is focussed on understanding the modern world from the point of view of plants. Morphology and morphogenesis are his entrypoint into a realm where vegetal intelligence and the elements combine to make living beings. Recent publications in English: The World According to Plants 2020, The Internal and External World of Plants 2021 and The Tides and the Algae 2021.

Hilde Methi is an independent curator based in Kirkenes, in Northeastern Norway. She builds up long-term collaborations infusing artistic ideas in local contexts and settings. Her recent work includes Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF 2019, The Kelp Congress, and touring exhibition Hábmet Hámi/ Making Form (2018-2019). Dark Ecology with Sonic Acts (NL) presented site-responsive works in the Norwegian-Russian border area (2014-2016). She co-edited The Kelp Congress book published in 2020.