Dirty Ear Forum
at PEER Gallery
A meeting of an experimental platform for sonic research.
5 - 7 July 2016
In collaboration with MA Sound Arts, London College of Communication, UAL
Organised by Brandon LaBelle & Salomé Voegelin.
With participating artists:
- Barby Asante
- Brandon LaBelle
- Kevin Logan
- David Mollin
- Hannah Rickhards
- Salomé Voegelin
'The Dirty Ear Forum is an experimental platform for sonic research. Occurring in different locations and settings, it is based on the coming together of a selected group of practitioners to share and exchange research on sound and listening and to collectively work through a range of sonic concepts. Each Forum is developed through collective decision-making in how to self-organise, leading to a range of material expressions. At the centre of the Forum is a desire to bring together individual viewpoints and practices into a shared activity, emphasising sound as a conceptual and material platform that enables processes of working together. '
This edition of the Forum proposes that:
“A political vocabulary has developed that sounds insidiously, saturating society with fear and condemnation of the other, the weak, the inefficient. Governmental and Corporate bodies play with language, words and voices, as a judiciary and as an emotive act, to determine social acceptance for a divisive politics." ... more.
Read more on the PEER Gallery website: www.peeruk.org/dirty-ear-forum
Please contact the gallery for opening times.