Ofri Cnaani, Thalia Hoffman, Stav Marin, Samira Saraya, Neta Weiner, Manar Zuabi
School of Listening: (Im)possible Conversations
22. 7. – 31. 8. 24
key data
- Venue
- Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Rupertinum
- Date
- 22. 7. – 31. 8. 24
- Opening hours
- Monday–Friday 10 am–6 pm, Thursdays 10 am–8 pm
Inspired by the School of Seeing founded by Oskar Kokoschka in 1953, the School of Listening is a program developed especially for the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts that focuses on listening differently. It probes listening’s capacity to embody conflictuality, amplify silenced narratives, seep through borders, and challenge simplistic perspectives on identity. Harnessing the human voice and sounds in media including performance art, music, radio, and film, it invites audiences to speak together, listen, participate, refuse, collaborate, or co- resist.
Under the title School of Listening: (Im)possible Conversations, several artists participating in the Summer Academy will present a selection from their creations at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in interaction with works from the Generali Foundation Collection.
The works and live events staged by the artists examine conflicts in relationships that defy simple understandings of identity and border controls. The conversations in the exhibition stretch the boundaries of body and voice, turning listening into a somatic experience. With this form of listening, they resonate the complexity of antagonistic dialogues and fragile collaborations, ones in which language can serve both as a weapon and as a means to overcome borders through empathetic recognition.
With works by Ofri Cnaani, Thalia Hoffman, Stav Marin, Samira Saraya, Neta Weiner, and Manar Zuabi as well as works from the Generali Foundation Collection by Joan Jonas and Peter Tscherkassky
A collaboration between the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
Curators: Maayan Sheleff with Christina Penetsdorfer
School of Listening Differently
A second exhibition and a series of live events, under the title School of Listening Differently, are staged at the Zwergelgartenpavillon, with the participation of Ari Benjamin Meyers, Brandon LaBelle, Sunny Pfalzer and Netta Weiser. Among the works are an audio installation where one can hear choreography, a video where one could listen to sign language, a video-dance about the identity struggles of a metaphorical teenager and an invitation to sing together.
School of Listening Differently stages performative conversations and discursive performances that imply the dual potentialities of the voice and the body –to be governed and controlled, as well as to subvert and undermine forms of governing. Entangled between the personal and the collective as well the artistic, activist and academic, it embodies a fragile and differentiated collectivity, where listening can become a form of resistance to oppression.
Curated by Maayan Sheleff
Veranstaltungen
25 July 2024 / 7 pm
Beat Midras
Stav Marin, Samira Saraya and Neta Weiner
Museum der Moderne, Altstadt (Rupertinum)
22 August 2024 / 7 pm
Make Art at Your Own Risk
Thalia Hoffman and Manar Zuabi
Museum der Moderne, Altstadt (Rupertinum)
08 August 2024 / 7 pm
Listen to it like you haven’t been born yet, tell it as you are still in the surrogate womb
Ofri Cnaani with Agnė Jokšė, Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart
Museum der Moderne, Altstadt (Rupertinum)