Melbourne Art Foundation (MAF) presents the 2016 Lectures and Forums Program in association with Liquid Architecture and the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) – University of Melbourne.
Curated by Nikos Papastergiadis (RUPC), Joel Stern and Danni Zuvela (Liquid Architecture)
Autotune Everything: Art and the Sonic – Cosmic – Politic
This year’s program is an expanded symposium encompassing talks, music, performances and experiments.
FREE EVENT OPEN TO ALL
Date
18-20 August 2016
Venue
Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture
168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia
About
By necessity, we tune in to some signals, and filter others out. In determining what is signal and what is noise, listening is political – all listening, all the time. As is looking: when we focus, we sharpen the subject, and exclude the rest. Consigned to the back, signals nonetheless continue to vibrate, permeating through the social and the architectural, into the atmospheric. We want to stage a conversation about sound, art and public space. What if our own practices echo those of the larger forces that filter, groom and autotune political and aesthetic consensus? What do we hear when our listening is less selective? What processes transmit, in the background, and what alternative tuning would receive them? How might we amplify our own complicity in the correction of rogue expressions? Who is most guilty of saying nothing?
This experimental symposium brings together thinkers and performers across sound and art to consider:
– Disharmony between percept and concept
– Zero-sum games: art v state; non-state art; art’s non-state(s)
– Industrial culture in the culture industries
– (Music in) the spaces of art – on galleriability and ambient spectacularity
– Hatred of music; or the more unmusical the better
– Sensoria of the body politic
Featuring:
– Ute Meta Bauer, Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore
– Clocks and Clouds (Kraig Grady and Terumi Narushima), The Austronesian Embassy of Anaphoria Island
– Dennis Del Favero, UNSW Scientia Professor, Sydney
– Hou Hanru, Director of MAXXI, Rome
– Evelyne Jouanno, Founder at Ars Citizen and Emergency Biennale
– Caleb Kelly, UNSW National Institute for Experimental Arts, Sydney
– Seth Kim-Cohen, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
– Johannes Kreidler, Composer, artist, Germany
and
Chunyin Rainbow Chan (Sydney), Megan Clune (Sydney), Debris Facility (Melbourne), Eric Demetriou (Melbourne), (no)signal (Melbourne), Matthias Schack-Arnott (Melbourne), James Rushford (Melbourne), Masato Takasaka (Melbourne)
more TBA
The Melbourne Art Foundation would like to thank its long standing partners, The Australia Council and Creative Victoria.
Seth Kim-Cohen is a guest of Monash Art Design & Architecture. Johannes Kreidler is supported by RMIT international Artist in Residence program (iAIRt), Goethe Institut and Speak Percussion.
With thanks to Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Gertrude Contemporary, Monash University Museum of Art, TarraWarra Museum of Art.
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