Events / Social Acoustics, exhibition
2022-08-12 - / , Bergen
Partners: Brandon LaBelle, Doa Aly, Alex Reynolds, Ricarda Denzer
12. - 28. August
Bergen Kjøtt 1 Skutevikstorget Bergen, Vestland, 5032 Norway
Jill Halstead & Brandon LaBelle with Beatrice Allegranti, Clara Allison, Doa Aly, Liz Barry, Lisa Busby, Késia Decoté, Ricarda Denzer, Rutger Hauser, Thomas Hilder, Soledad Marambio, Gentian Meikleham, Karin Mössler, Alex Reynolds, Wolfgang Schmid, James Webb, Karen Werner
Social Acoustics is an artistic research project addressing the ways in which sound and listening afford social and more-than-social processes and imaginaries. This includes a consideration of the relational potentialities inherent to sound and acoustic materiality, and how processes of sounding and listening lend to capturing agency and action that are equally attuned to empathy, compassion, and healing. The exhibition brings together participating artists and thinkers from the project to present works and to share in discussions. Conceptually, the exhibition is structured around the notion of the concert, elaborating the scene of live music as one of collaboration, cooperation, and entanglement. To concert becomes a greater enactment where performing together is not only found in musicking, but equally through a range of gestures and media. This integrates a deep relational sensing of nonhuman matter, where things and objects become instrumental actants within a larger ensemble, as well as a rethinking of the sound body and what constitutes modes of listening. Social Acoustics integrates workshops, lectures and experimental modes of presentation, as a way of moving the concert off the stage and into a greater ecology of practices.
Program of Events:
August 13 / performance by Ricarda Denzer and Karen Werner
August 19 / presentations by Liz Barry, Thomas Hilder, Wolfgang Schmid, Jill Halstead and film by Soledad Marambio
August 20 / performance by Doa Aly and Brandon LaBelle, film by Alex Reynolds
August 26 / performance by Clara Allison
August 27 / performance by Rutger Hauser
August 28 / performance by Lisa Busby and Jill Halstead