Against Easy Listening
Visual Arts
Description
Description
Against Easy Listening is a group exhibition that scrutinizes the politics of listening and sound in everyday globalized life. With a roster of artists working in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, the exhibition consists of projects in installation, performance, sculpture, video, photography, and phonography.
The role of the aesthetic in this exhibition suggests other forms of knowing – how does one make sense of listening, what type of understanding is cultivated by the ear? How can hearing be a model for social engagement, a practice in tune with issues of community and locality, mediation and difference? Against Easy Listening is an exercise in polyphony: public speech turns into song, voices once dormant or unheard surface to the center for the ear rarely differentiates signal from noise.
Artists：Cattle Depot Community Concern Group; Huang Xiaopeng; Phoebe Hui; Viet Lê; Anson Mak; Mixrice; Mieko Shiomi子; Society for Experimental Cultural Production; Phunam @The Propeller Group; Matt Lucero @The Propeller Group; Tuan Andrew Nguyen @The Propeller Group; Adrian Wong; Lyota Yagi; Zheng Bo
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2010" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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