Composing Differences

In 2015, Council contributed to “Composing Differences – Imagining New Models for Knowledge Production and Exchange”, a publication edited by Virginie Bobin. Council’s contribution was based on reflections emerging from the research on the diversity of hearing modes initiated as part of Infinite Ear, and furthered with French choreographer Noé Soulier and American designer Jeffrey Mansfield on the occasion of Deaf Sound at MoMA PS1 in 2014.

Composing Differences is a montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, and documents exploring different tactics of production and intellectual exchange that operate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts, and imagine novel institutional forms.

At a time when a rhetorical crisis dominates the economic world, when politics and media are pretexts for a growing privatization of knowledge, this book deploys a compilation of possible practices for the invention of dynamic commons.

Edited by curator and writer Virginie Bobin, Composing Differences follows on from the eponymous program of research and events organized in the context of the ART² festival held in New York in April 2014.

Composing Differences – Imagining New Models for Knowledge Production and Exchange is a project by ART² festival and Les Presses du Réel.

Published in June 2015
English edition
16,5 x 21 cm (softcover)
208 pages
20€

CONTRIBUTIONS BY

Perrine Bailleux
Nova Benway
Virginie Bobin
Noah Chasin
Bojana Cvejić
Council
Guillaume Fayard
Géraldine Gourbe
Glass Bead
Jonathan Hoskins
Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau
Jeffrey Mansfield
Judith Revel
Jan Ritsema
Esther Salmona
Noé Soulier
Triple Canopy

GRAPHIC DESIGN

M/M (Paris)

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Top image : Deaf Sound for Composing differences, Jeffrey Mansfield & Noé Soulier, MoMA PS1, 2014.

Deaf Sound

Visual essay

Signs and Sounds
—Jeffrey Mansfield

Publication

Composing Differences
– edited by Virginie Bobin