We observed on various locations in the region of South West Flanders the folkloristic sport of SUSKEWIET. Learning and observing the very strict protocols of the game and their serial, particular markings on the black wooden sticks; these mathematical writings can be seen as a temporal ephemera score produced in the Flemish landscape along the River Lys; - a gesture and tradition with roots in the Late Middle Age Falconry – and source for a future algorithmic sound composition. Can the protocols of a game in between human and caged birds be a staring point to develop a universal tool to learn and listen differently to our environment? And can a folkloristic tradition be re-contextualized and reveal a potential collective intelligence to harmonize our dominant relation towards non-human entities?
The challenge is to actively re-charge the traditional measuring stick and counting method of a disappearing heritage by appropriating an ethno-ornitological approach and using the manual stick for observations as a tool for a learning to listen to our divers sound-landscape.

Sukewiet Visions
Concept & Design: Filip Van Dingenen & David Shongo
Production: Filip Van Dingenen & David Shongo
Sound Design: David Shongo
Project partners: Snowball, Gluon, Leiedal

Research Partners:
● Nikolaas Boucquey - HOWEST
● Edith Van Dyck – IPEM UGENT
● Alexander Deweppe - HOWEST
● Benjamin Gorissen KULEUVEN
● Jan Baert - Terresterial Ecology Unit UGENT
● Bart Vercoutere KULEUVEN

Repairing the Present received funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement LC01641664.

Filip Van Dingenen
Filip Van Dingenen is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of the Ecole Mondiale in Brussels. He was a researcher at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent/ Brussels and an affiliated researcher at the Laboratory of Education and Society at KU Leuven. He was a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy (2013), associate artist in residence with Mark Dion at ACA (2008), and developed projects in Artist Residency Programs at Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008), Wiels Art Center (2009) Banff Arts Center (2013), Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (2015) and worked in Ireland, Argentina, and Equatorial Guinea. He has written numerous articles for journals and magazines and has authored several artist books. His works and performances are presented at 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (2018), Biennale de Casablanca (2018), LIAF, Norway (2017), Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (2013), Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro (2009), Centro Cultural Español en Bata (2008), Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona (2006), 7hours Haus19 - Humboldt University & Museum for Natural History Berlin (2005).


David Shongo
Trained as a computer scientist, David Shongo is a pianist-songwriter, visual and sound artist from Lubumbashi, born in 1994. Often adapted by musical performances and installations, his practice mixes music, sound, photography and video. David Shongo uses archives, sounds, and images from his environment to create interactive sound and visual architectures. His musical language is based on the ethnomusicology of Congo with a jazz and experimental approach. He conducts research on the harmonic unification of Congo’s ethnic music from the linguistic pulsations and the “Rhythmic Wheel” theory of Congolese pianist Ray Lema. His visual work revolves around the psychological analysis of his country’s colonial heritage, the socio-economic changes linked to technological evolution, and the exploitation of the Congo’s underground resources (coltan).