Two unspectacular interventions performed in central Johannesburg by Simnikiwe Buhlungu and Euridice Zaituna Kala evidence the performativity of voice in public space, addressing the unheard in contemporary society, operating ...

Focused on Christina Kubisch’s performance art works in the1970s, the article gives an account of Kubisch’s interview with Clélia Barbut, recorded during the artist’s exhibition at the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Échos ...

Inaudible Matters, a project including Electrical Walks Paris by Christina Kubisch as well as a programme of lectures and performances, took place at the Gaîté Lyrique Paris from 12 September to 12 December 2019. Inaudible ...

The exhibition Échos magnétiques — Christina Kubisch took place at the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes /France from 15 February to 14 April 2019. It was curated by Damien Simon and Anne Zeitz in collaboration with Clélia ...

The exhibition Sound Unheard took place at the Goethe-Institut Paris/France from 13 September to 27 October 2019. It was curated by Daniele Balit, Katharina Scriba and Anne Zeitz. The exhibition connects the foundational ...

The seminar “Écouter par les yeux” (Listening with the Eyes), Reflecting on exhibitions, sound works and archival documents with René Block and Christina Kubisch took place on 15 October 2019 at the German Center for Art ...

In 1970 the artist Markus Raetz imagined a device for capturing and listening to silence, through headphones connected to a soundproofed space. A few years later, in 1978, an “audio epiphany” inspired Amar Bose, during a ...

The phrase “high fidelity” might be said to be “tuned to moralist resonances”. The promise of technological transparency implies that sounds and images should not be altered during translations between recording, restitution ...

The starting point of this article is the exhibition Der befreite Klang, Kunst für Augen und Ohren (Liberated Sound, Art for the Eyes and the Ears) conceived by the German curator René Block in 1986 for a castle in Austria ...

The auditory experience of technical mediation is related to certain perceptual techniques we have developed in order to differentiate between meaningful sound and undesired parasitic artefacts. The act of ‘unhearing’ ...