Panelists:
Guy Briggs
Bidder on Foreshore Freeway City of Cape Town tender
dhk: Principal
Caroline Sohie
Planning Specialist
University of KULeuven: Faculty of Architecture
Dave Southwood
Artist
Photographer
Robert Silke
Preferred Bidder on Foreshore Freeway City of Cape Town tender
Robert Silke&Partners: Director
Mark Noble
Neighbouring Landowner
V&A Waterfront: Development Director
Dr. Lisa Kane
Academic researcher and writer
University of Cape Town: Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Transport Studies
Moderator:
Leszek Dobrovolsky
Infrastructure specialist
INSTINCT: Director
Convenor:
Instinct, London
How we listen determines what we hear – this is the central proposition of Bhavisha Panchia's project at A4.
The artworks in Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1 utilise audio phenomena that vary in medium; from vinyl records, video and installation to podcasts, web releases and performance lectures.
Featuring works by internationally acclaimed artists Vivian Caccuri, Chris Chafe, Nick Cave, Andrew Pekler, Robin Rhode, Sahel Sounds, and Jenna Sutela, in addition to a selection of podcasts from Phantom Power and audio media from Nothing to Commit Records, the project pursues the question: What kind of generative opportunity lies in the act of tactful listening?
Accompanying the exhibition is a public program of talks, workshops and seminars. These exchanges feature practitioners working in various disciplines, probing the poetic, speculative and critical capacities of sound and listening.
What kind of generative opportunity lies in the act of tactful listening?
In What is it to Listen? curator Bhavisha Panchia proposes that how we listen, determines what we hear. We Killed the President - a triptych of micro fictions written by Bongani Kona conjures an unnamed dictatorship; the soundtrack of a coup located in the everywhere. Together, the essays probe the poetic, speculative and critical capacity of sound and listening.