In his many ongoing projects, Luke experiments with ambient sounds + atmospheric light + found space + bodily experience + open conversations + basic thinking. He works collaboratively and communally, across Australia and overseas. Common interests across these projects include: situational, embodied and ambient awareness,here-now presence, the formal treatment of the found, open communal processes, the ‘homely’ as site of production, materials and consumption of alternative culture, and what he calls ‘liveliness’ (living in ways that open up more living).

Luke is currently involved in several major sound-based projects. He co-directs SUPER CRITICAL MASS (SCM), a site-specific participatory sound art project which has worked with many community and professional ensembles and major public spaces like Federation Square, Cockatoo Island, Manchester Cathedral, Library of Birmingham and New York’s Central Park. For a few years now, Luke has been collecting dozens of vintage music keyboards (Yamaha PortaSounds, manufactured 1981-1984) as part of his PORTAL project and this year he began setting up installations of the keyboards in people’s homes, parklands, studios and art spaces. And with the newly formed SOUND-BODY AWARENESS Collective, Luke has been developing a body-movement-awareness practice known as DRO FO (DROne FOcusing). As a visual artist, Luke has exhibited installations, still and moving images (including ongoing LONG SHOTS and BEAUTY SPOTS series) and created temporary public art. He also conducts conversational experiments in forums such as ELEVEN ELEPHANTS and BLACKENED WOOD. Current writing projects include A LIVING PROCESS, a commentary on philosopher Eugene Gendlin, and A BOOK WITHOUT A FACE which is collating his Facebook conversations on sound, art, thinking and living.

_Luke Jaaniste will be presenting a sound installation and showcase a
new site-specific sound performance_

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