By: Rrpawaaq

Rrpawaaq — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:26:49 +0000

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By: t/c/v

t/c/v — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:29:45 +0000

Thanks for your — if I may say it — perceptive words. It is intriguing that you understand sound as ‘seeming to only tell part of a story’; for me such statements — insofar as they pit sound against sight — are part of a long-lasting ocularcentrism in the arts. What is a story? Does a ‘telling’ not involve, implicitly, sound? Should we not also think, here, of what the body is telling you in its various positions in the exhibit? Also, since when doe a sound-exhibit *negate* sight? One’s eyes still function just as one’s ear keep listening as one looks at a photograph. Rather, ocularcentrism denies what it sees when it refuses to hear. We could also ask, thinking of the role of the Wagnerian themeatic, does music too only tell part of the story whereas the eyes tell it all? Ocularcentrism is an interesting though untenable proposition that only reveals the historical bias of one sense over another. Perhaps such attempts at (aesthetic) judgment are increasingly useless — and a different response deserves to be crafted for the 21C. yrs, tobias c. van Veen (curator, espaceSONO)

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