Two-day international assembly of public performative presentations and conversations with artists and researchers on sound, vibration and listening as forces of resistance.
Uncanny Knowledge: Unsettling the Architectures of Silencing takes over Nottingham Contemporary on 7 and 8 November, a two-day international assembly that brings together artists, researchers and communities. It's co-curated by Elham Puriya Mehr and Fereshte Moosavi, and the whole thing runs from 11am to 5pm each day in The Space.
The focus is sound, vibration, listening and embodiment, and how those things can work as forces of resistance, collective knowledge-making and social transformation. It's framed against a backdrop of escalating wars, forced displacements and ecological devastation. The curators describe 'silencing' as an interconnected economic, geopolitical, genocidal and ideological force that dismantles the spaces and relations sustaining collective life, and the assembly is built around that idea.
Over the two days, you'll find public performative presentations and collective conversations. The line-up includes Salomé Voegelin, Golnoosh Heshmati, Irit Rogoff, Ayreen Anastas, René Gabri, Hamid Dabashi, Zahra Malkani and choreographer Arkadi Zaides. It's a wide mix of voices—artists and researchers working across different fields—so the conversations should pull from a few different angles rather than sticking to one.
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Entry is free, though donations are requested. The venue is wheelchair accessible and speakers use microphones. It runs 11am to 5pm on both Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November at Nottingham Contemporary.
Date
7 November – 8 November
11:00
Price
Free
Recommended Age
+14 years
