Uncurating Sound Knowledge With Voice And Hands Salom Voegelin by Salomé Voegelin 9781501345418, 9781501345401, 9781501345449, 1501345419, 1501345400, 1501345443 instant download after payment.

Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge & normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms & engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment's desire for objectivity, through sugar, cotton & tobacco, via lives lost and money made to the violence of contemporary art. It takes from curation the notion of care and thinks it through purposeful inefficiency as resistance: going sideways and another way. Thus it moves curation through the double negative of not not to “uncuration”: untethering knowledge from the expectations of reference and a canonical frame, & reconsidering art as political not in its message or aim, but by the way it confronts the institution. Looking at Kara Walker's work, the book invites the performance of the curatorial via indivisible connections and processes. Reading Kathy Acker & Adrian Piper it speculates on how the body brings us to knowledge beyond the ordinary. 

Playing Kate Carr & Ellen Fullman it re-examines Modernism's colonial ideology, & materialises the vibrational presence of a plural sense. Listening to Marguerite Humeau & Manon de Boer it avoids theory but agitates a direct knowing from voice & hands, and feet and ears that disorder hegemonic knowledge strands in favour of local, tacit, feminist & contingent knowledges that demand like Zanele Muholi's photographs, an ethical engagement with the work/world.