Event
Listening Symposium
29 Jan 2016
The Hexagon, University of Essex
Colchester, United Kingdom
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Mikhail Karikis, SeaWomen 2012
Exhibition
Listening
12 Dec 2015 – 14 Feb 2016
Cost of entry
Admission Free
Address
- Essex University
- Colchester
- CO4 3SQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- www.artexchange.org.uk/visit
- www.artexchange.org.uk/visit
Event map
Listening brings a group of international artists together to interrogate the act of listening in contemporary art.
About
This pioneering exhibition curated by Sam Belinfante, winner of the Hayward Gallery Open 2014, examines the crossover between the visual and the sonic and their complex relationships to the senses. The selected works range dramatically in duration from less than a second to six hours: hear a clap of thunder that has been stretched in duration and aurally dissected, recreated by musicians and morphed back into a thunderclap; eavesdrop on a cabin in a forest and listen to the almost inaudible sound of a dying star.
Listening spans both Firstsite, Colchester and Art Exchange, and includes artists Ed Atkins, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Mikhail Karikis, Ragnar Kjartansson, Lina Lapelyte, Christian Marclay, Haroon Mirza, Max Neuhaus, Katie Paterson, Amalia Pica, Laure Prouvost, Hannah Rickards, Prem Sahib, Anri Sala, Imogen Stidworthy and Carey Young.
A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition.
