Jennifer Tee
Force Times Distance – On Labour and it’s Sonic Ecologies
Sonsbeek 20-24
2 Jul – 29 Aug 2021
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The curatorial framework of sonsbeek20→24, centered around
labour and its sonicities, connects a millenary history crossing times and
geographies to the present moment, through a multitude of voices, sounds, and
ripples. It invites us to listen to the sounds relegated to the ‘edges’ of the
‘main’ motive, to the whispered stories, to those passed through singing and
through story-telling, and embodied narratives. An edition that inhabits the
absence from the dominant image. An edition that draws particular attention to
that which has been written otherwise—in singing, playing, performing, dancing,
caring, in polyphonic rhythms and multiple motherless-tongues thanks to which
memories, traditions, spiritualities, entire cosmologies crossed oceans and
deserts. This edition aims to reveal the complex labour relations and inequalities
that show who is (un)seen, who is (in)dispensable, who is seemingly worth our
applause, and who is fawningly silent.
With more than 250 contributions and artistic positions in
13 different locations, sonsbeek20→24 expands its original format of an exhibition
in Arnhem’s Park Sonsbeek, to a multiplicity of manifestations in and beyond
the city of Arnhem. Including airplane hangars, vaults, military schools,
radio, museums, a private foundation, two churches, a festival, a guard house,
community libraries and centers, barber shops, a.o., this first public edition
questions and stretches the notion of public space and public art.