Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
21 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh, EH6 4JT
4 October 2024
Convened by Maria Fusco
SOUND POLITICS VOICE investigated how sonic encounters within the artistic realm, can discuss and embody socio-political material as both subject and as form within the curatorial realm. It considered how sonic documents can reveal and/or obscure histories, both personal and public, and how artists can use and re-use archives of sound to examine these complexities. The event further engaged with how the acoustic environment of such sound works (sonic here understood in an expanded sense) can propose creative and critical responses to intersectional identities in situations such as post-conflict zones and migratory lived experience. The aim was to begin to establish a new, practical discourse around the political possibilities of sound. The guest speaker was artist, writer and curator Johanna Linsley and the event was facilitated by Katie Potapoff.
