Signe Lidén is an artist based in Oslo. 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 sound installations, video and performance to more documentary forms such as sound essays and archives.

Lidén has initiated the ongoing projects Pavilion and Wetland Library as well as Academy of Rhythmorphology, which was created in 2022 together with Hilde Methi and Arjen Mulder. Her project The Tidal Sense consisted of an installation, sound essay and seminar during LIAF 2019 and has subsequently been manifested in various forms, such as a BBC radio program and as part of the show Currents of Breath in Radialsysteme in Berlin. Vertical Studies is Lidén’s collaboration with artist Espen Sommer Eide, with the site sensitive outdoor performance Altitude and History (2016) shown during the Dark Ecology project in Nikel, Russia, and the follow-up Acoustic Shadows and Boundary Reflections I & II 2017, shown during Sonic Acts (NL) and the Borealis festival in Bergen. In 2022 Vertical Studies made the outdoor performance For våre framtiders skygger as part of Pavilion Wetland and the follow-up Skyggekoret for the Wetland Library in 2025. Her project The Cold Coast Archive (2010-12) has been presented at the Center of PostNatural History (Pittsburgh, 2012), The Long Now Foundation (2012), Eastern Bloc (Montreal, 2016) and L´Atelier (Nantes, 2019). She has had longer residencies at Oxford University, among others, and created a number of works for venues and festivals both locally and internationally.

Texts/interviews/publications: 

Essay with Arjen Mulder in Tangboka/The Kelp Congress

Sculpture Magazine, essay about my work written by Oliver Lowenstein

Daniela Cascella has wrote a wonderful text on my work SKALA, in Volt´s impressive publication The Imaginary Reader:

I have a contribution in Living Earth -Field Notes from the Dark Ecology Project

About my collaboration with Ellen Røed in her great book SKYVELÆRE , read more about Røed´s project here: www.ellenrøed.no

SNÆ, issue 2 2013 and issue 4 (soon to be online): 2015

Salomé Voegelin writes about my work in her latest book: Sonic Possible Worlds

On The Cold Coast Archive in Bonnie Fortune´s book  An Edge Effect: Art&Ecology in the Nordic Landscapes

Salomé Voegelin´s article in The Wire.

Antje Van Wichelen on Writings in her article on Doris Lessing in Primitives.

Holes, Caves and Archives and Inscriptions  by Harold Schellinx for Resonance

Text for STRATIGRAFI by Roar Sletteland (Norwegian and English)

Review/Evaluation on “Under” (Nordic Sound Art final work evaluation) by Christina Kubisch

Interview in We Make Money Not Art by Régine Debatty

four questions,  In Place by Jez Riley French