artist
Tulle Ruth
Denmark / Norway
Tulle Ruth (b. 1962, Denmark) is a visual artist working with sculpture and installations that incorporate sound. Her artistic practice explores themes related to everyday communication, and she uses a diverse range of methods, including science, field recordings, 3D sound, and experimental techniques. Ruth treats the entire landscape as both material and exhibition space for her work. Her interdisciplinary approach and collaborations cut across various fields. Her roles as an artist include sculptor, performer, producer, and curator, with a particular focus on highlighting sound art.
Ruth has toured extensively in the Nordic region with projects such as The Wind-powered Street Organ, Drive In of Sound Art, and TRACKS. These works are community-oriented, often created in collaboration with the locals. Since 2008, her outdoor works have been powered off the grid, using sustainable energy from her own solar and wind power systems.
Ruth’s education includes studies at Bergen Academy of Fine Arts, Studio Arts at Concordia University Canada, and Media Art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She has exhibited both locally and internationally, participated in festivals like Ultima Contemporary Music Festival/NOTAM and the Fall Exhibition, and has received awards for her work.
Currently, Tulle Ruth lives and works in Fredrikstad, Norway, where she combines her career as a visual artist with her work as an occupational therapist.
Tulle Ruth
roundSOUNDabout, 2025
Interactive sound-installation appearing as a roundabout (traffic circle) with a tall sculpture in the centre. Styrofoam covered with painted A1 Acrylic One. Inside a load-bearing metal construction. Dimensions: Similar to a regular small roundabout
roundSOUNDabout is a functional roundabout installed in the large parking lot at Alby, crowned by a tall sonic sculpture. Visitors driving or cycling can circle around it, shaping their experience through interacting with the sounds’ movement. This playful design draws on the MOMENTUM 13 concept, seeing the parking lot—an unlikely site for immersive, location-specific sound art—as an aesthetic realm. Curator Tulle Ruth has invited Jennifer Torrence, Linn Halvorsrød and the duo of Eirik Havnes and Benno Steinegger to create new works, broadcast through speakers on the roundSOUNDabout. Evolving from the “Drive In of Sound Art” project—a roadside gallery for motorists—roundSOUNDabout extends sound art to those passing by. Without needing to exit the car, listeners can simply slow down or pause, opening windows to hear the compositions. In the context of Between / Worlds: Resonant Ecologies, the piece spotlights the liminal space of transition where daily transit and aesthetic experience merge, prompting a horizontal reorientation between worlds.
With support from Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Østfold Fylkeskommune, Bergesenstiftelsen, Høstscena and Vlaamse Overheid.
Jennifer Torrence
Synk
Synk is a multichannel tape piece searching the centerpoint of a sculptural roundabout. Four snare drums and two bass drums spiral the energetic belt meridian between heaven and earth.
Performed by Jennifer Torrence.
Linn Halvorsrød
CRUSHED AND IMPALED
From your first scream to your very last breath, your whole life is guided by sound. In soundproof rooms, you can hear your heart. I have heard mine. It sounded like cold German techno. What does your heart sound like?
“Crushed and Impaled” contains no recordings of the ocean. I thought the work would be about hope, but it is not. It’s a drama about when love and death meet.
You can hear Kristoffer Momrak playing the flute and Sondre Bergersen Mæland playing guitar and the voices of Lori Beth Bravo, Elise Adamsrød and Sigrid Voll Bøyum. You can also hear Linn Halvorsrød and Nora Risnes screaming in the Vigeland Mausoleum, recorded by Christian Blandehol. Photo by Raide.
©Linn Halvorsrød 2025 http://origami.teks.no
Eirik Havnes and Benno Steinegger
The Library of Botanical Voices
The Library of Botanical Voices is a sound installation by composer Eirik Havnes (NO) and director/actor Benno Steinegger (IT/BE), as part of a larger project researching ways to communicate with plants. Instead of making scientifically accurate recordings of plants, as they have previously done, they approach the matter from the phenomenological perspective of their audience. When the various sounds from different participants are played together, they form a small biotope — a garden, if you like — of perceived Botanical Voices.
The project is developed in collaboration with the Høstscena performing arts festival.
The installation consists of five groups of eight botanical voices.
The plants and participants included are:
Group 1
1: Andrés’ succulent
2: Anja’s money tree
3: Anonymous’ pine root
4: Benjamin’s cherry tree
5: Jan’s avocado plant
6: Eirik’s dandelion
7: Helena’s spider plant
8: Karl’s tulip
Group 2
1: Linda’s bladderwrack
2: Johannes’ fern
3: Jon’s cactus
4: Kathrine’s parlor palm
5: Lars Andre’s grass
6: Lena’s tree
7: Liljan’s wheat field
8: Max’s wood anemone
Group 3
1: Malakias’ maple
2: Oskar’s ivy
3: Oskar’s deciduous tree
4: Rami’s Gardena
5: Sander’s cherry tree
6: Sebastian’s fly agaric
7: Simen’s apple tree
8: Snorre’s wood anemone
Group 4
1: Svein’s dwarf geranium
2: Tobi’s aloe vera
3: Tor Magnus’ blood maple
4: Willy’s cactus
5: Benno’s pine
6: Eirik’s crowberry
7: Siri’s monstera
8: Amalie’s oxalis
Group 5
1: Brage’s pansy
2: Siv’s rose
3: Bibbi’s fig plant
4: Anne’s calla lily
5: Jan’s little tree
6: Pernille’s cactus
7: Mathilde’s aloe vera
8: Amy’s crowberry
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