Sound Scene 2023: After The End
For Sound Scene 2023 at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, I invited Susan Jahoda to join me in installing a series of site-based, tactile, semi-autonomous sound objects outdoors. Big thank you to the Goethe Insitut for funding this work.
Additionally, we offered a workshop, Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects. The project and workshop centered around these questions. How do we live besides sentient and non-sentient others? What are the implications of being in a non-hierarchical relationship with each other, of living beside? Do technological, human, or natural systems need to be “fully known” (dissected, reduced, assimilated, etc.) for nourishing exchanges to happen?
The project aimed to create an environment where participants could question assumptions about hierarchies and interdependence with nonhuman others, practice deep listening, and engage in horizontal collaboration. Those encountering Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects were invited to a collaborative, improvisational jam session with our anti-instruments.
