Ian Nolan ~ Keywords: storytelling, acoustemology, counter-rhythm, potential history, para-infrastrcture, phenomenology, improvisation, workshops, sound-practices, infrastructural critique, confusion, socially engaged practice, mutual aid, piss-take, monstrosity, anarchism
Ian Nolan is an artist, musician, and researcher based somewhere between Ireland, Brussels, the Netherlands and Turkiye. Exploring the intersection of sound, place, and memory, their work embraces improvisation, mistakes, and storytelling. Emphasising the role of infrastructure in shaping damaged landscapes, their work explores the connections between language, music, landscape and memory.
Ian prefers to work collaboratively, developing workshops, walking tours, and jam sessions that foster a generative approach, creating intimate and generative experiences that rejects outcome-oriented processes, embracing mistakes, imperfections and the worlds they make possible. Working primarily freelance, Ian is currently involved in the long-term research project, MedCorp, exploring the intersection between tourism, cryptocurrency, pharmaceuticals and biopolitics. Ian is also a member of a band initiated with fellow DAI students, who will continue to work together after graduation, exploring the intersection of sound, music and activism. They lead infrastructural and potential history tours of urban landscapes, uncovering hidden narratives and speculative histories.
Through these activities, Ian probes the intersections of sound, place, and memory, crafting experiences that invite participants to reimagine their surroundings and the stories they tell.
*Learn more about Ian Nolan's 20 minute performance From Turning to Becoming: laments for shattered worlds for Chameleon Orbit ~ DAI's Aeroponic Acts 2024 at Centrale Fies in Italy.
*Learn more about Ian Nolan's written MA thesis (DAI, 2024): Thinking Roads, Straying Songs: On Infrastructure, Inheriting Damaged Landscapes and Improvisational Twists
*During their journey with DAI, Ian made significant contributions to: COOP Summit 2023 ~ Evergreening the Cut [towards and beyond film's photosynthesis] as well as COOP SUMMIT 2024 ~ Moving with the Dunes
*Follow Ian's "Life after DAI" via @iannolan