Curated by Cathy Lane.
Abdullah Al Othman (KSA) / Asma Ghanem (PALESTINE) / Alexia Webster (S.AFRICA) Christopher Marianetti (USA) / Angus Carlyle (UK) / Jananne Al Ani (UK / IRAQ) / Louise K Wilson (UK) / Martin John Callanan (UK) / Nour Sokhon (LEBANON) / Open Group (UKRAINE) / Shirin Neshat / (IRAN) / Thomas Gardner (UK) / Uzma Falak (KASHMIR, INDIA) / Yara Mekawei (EGYPT)
An experimental sound art exhibition tuning into the echoes of history to explore the enduring impact of conflict.
The works in this exhibition explore not only the sounds of war or protests themselves, but also help us listen to the sonic reverberations of conflicts transmitted through time and space and inscribed in landscapes and bodies. Harnessing the unique power of sound, they navigate the temporal reverberations of our collective pasts, revealing how they shape our presents.
The artists in Listening to Traces unearth the resonances and cycles of conflict past and present through the medium of sound and how it can feedback and echo through language, the body, place, the built environment, and our relationships with each other. Sometimes the memories are overt and acoustic, at other time they are forgotten or subliminal yet all reflect this cyclicality of conflict, the wounds of history and the potent feedback loop that continues to exert influence on the contemporary.
Join us on a journey across time and space to reveal sonic perspectives on war, peace, and the unending conversation between them.
In association with CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice) London.
Our biggest thanks to Zayed University, Abu Dhabi and Gladstone Gallery New York.
Listening for Traces / Programme Note