NON-COCHLEAR SOUND Exhibition: Saturdays, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2 pm - 8 pm
Sound, like everything else (maybe more than everything else), is a product of interaction: stick with skin, wheel with street, wind with grass. Logically, then, sound is also a product of the situations in which these interactions occur. Non-Cochlear Sound addresses sound as a conceptual, contextual construct. Non-Cochlear Sound might function in a sound-like fashion without specifically referencing or making sound, it might use sound as a vehicle for transporting ideas or materials from point A to point B, it might even make sound but only as an excuse for initiating other activities. Sound always makes meaning by interacting with other things in proximity: geographic proximity, ideological proximity, philosophical proximity. Non-Cochlear Sound is nothing more - and nothing less - than the acknowledgement of this reality. Diapason Gallery for Sound presents Non-Cochlear Sound, an exhibition curated by Seth Kim-Cohen. The exhibition follows from Kim-Cohen's book, In The Blink Of An Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Continuum 2009), which theorizes a phylum of sonic practice imagined as a continuation of and a complement to Marcel Duchamp's notion of a non-retinal visual art. The opening on October 1 at 7pm will include one-time-only performances which will then be documented for the remainder of the exhibition. Non-Cochlear Sound continues Saturdays in October from 2pm-8pm and features the work of twenty established and emerging artists working with sound as a medium which addresses ideas beyond the act of hearing. Through performance, video, text and sound, the artists examine sonic conceptualism and the mediating/mediated properties of sound. Artists:
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