About

The Reanimation Research Institute (RRI) is an independent research unit exploring sound as a tool for reanimating the relations between humans and their environments.

Rooted in artistic practices and informed by human geography, RRI examines the dynamic interplay between people and their surroundings as an ongoing process of cultural (dis)integration. The institute approaches this relation as animated — a living reciprocity shaped by use, attention, directed energy and extended corporeal functions that imbue the world around us with cultural and sensorial meaning.

Our work seeks to understand how this relation is created, maintained, dissolved, and potentially reawakened.

Drawing inspiration from animistic thinking and ritual practices, RRI uses sound as both medium and method — to expose patterns of life and behaviour in objects, materials, spaces, and systems. Our approach emphasizes contextual sensitivity and a strong outreach towards situation, audience and environment, treating each project as a site-specific act of listening and reanimation.

RRI is founded and directed by Mads Bech Paluszewski-Hau, sound artist, composer, cultural producer and musician. With a background in Human Geography and Performance Design, he is a member of the Danish Composers Society. Since the early 2000s he has worked across sound art, composition and cultural production. After a period of reflection and synthesis in 2017, he founded The Reanimation Research Institute in 2018 to consolidate his ongoing artistic and research-based practice.

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