Hearing Matters

As part of the exhibition WITHIN/Infinite Ear, Council presented Hearing Matters, a display of artworks, facsimile and objects from cultural, natural, and history museums that have addressed diverse hearing experiences, including an installation by Alison O’Daniel. The complete list of artworks can be found in the booklet published on the occasion of the exhibition.

WITHIN/Infinite Ear exhibition view. In the pool: documents, artworks and selection of objects from collections of The Maritime Museum of Bergen, The Norwegian Deaf Museum, Trondheim, University Museum of Bergen, Cultural History Museum, University Museum of Bergen, Natural History Museum, University of Bergen, Wellcome Collection; Hanging from the ceiling: Alison O’Daniel, ‘Line of Sight’; Back: Tarek Atoui, ‘The Subbass Prototone’; Bergen Assembly, Bergen, 2016, ph. Thor Brødreskift
Diagram 1 (maelstöm agency) and diagram 2 (emotional response), Aurélien Gamboni and Sandrine Teixido, 2012. Set of two drawings, Chinese ink on paper, dimensions: 10.5×15 cm (each drawing). Courtesy of Fond d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Genève.

 

Étant donné et Prothèses, Baudouin Oosterlynck 6 objects, glass and metal. Prothèse avec chambre opus 125, 1995. Prothèse double, opus 137, 2011.  Etant donné n°7, opus 151, 2002. Etant donné n°12, opus 157, 2003. Etant donné n°13, opus 160, 2003. Etant donné n°18, opus 165, 2003.

 

Ear drum from Blue Whale. Bergen University Museum, Natural History department.

 

Infinite Ear is a project by Council, initiated in collaboration with Tarek Atoui (2013-ongoing).

WITHIN/Infinite Ear
an artistic project of the Bergen Assembly
Sentralbadet, Bergen, Norway
1 September – 1 October 2016

HEARING MATTERS

Artworks by
Douwe Jan Bakker
Antonia Carrara, Fairy Char
Giovanni Crupi
Aurelien Gamboni and Sandrine Teixido
Dora Garcia
Joseph Grigely
Alexandre Guirkinger
Alison O’Daniel Baudouin Oosterlynck

Facsimile, documents and video documentation by
Tarek Atoui
Alexander Melville Bell
John Cage
David P. Corey Laboratory Council
Edmond Halley
Robin Hoffman Anthanasius Kircher
René Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, Jacobus Leodiensis
Hieronymus Lorm, Greg Niemeyer
Paul Noguier
Physics of Fluids group of the University of Twente
Michael Rubinstein Valerie Sutton
US NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Kirk Visscher

Items from the Bergen Deaf Society collection
Bergen Maritime Museum
Cultural and Natural History department of the Bergen University Museum
Bergen University Library image collection
Norwegian Deaf Museum

Top photo : WITHIN/Infinite Ear exhibition view.
‘Etant donné’ et ‘Prothèses’, Baudouin Oosterlynck, 6 objects, glass and metal
‘Orecchio di Dionisio’ (Syracuse)
‘Giovanni Crupi’, 1899
‘Ear Drum from Blue Whale’, Bergen University Museum, Natural History department
Bergen Assembly, Bergen, 2016, ph. Thor Brødreskift

WITHIN / Infinite Ear

Introduction

Exhibition

WITHIN
—Tarek Atoui

Hearing Matters
—Douwe Jan Bakker, Antonia Carrara, Fairy Char, Giovanni Crupi, Aurelien Gamboni and Sandrine Teixido, Dora Garcia, Joseph Grigely, Alexandre Guirkinger, Alison O’Daniel, Baudouin Oosterlynck, Facsimile, documents and video documentation, Items from local collection

White Cat
— Tarek Atoui, Hein B. Bjerk, Chris Chafe, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jacob Kirkegaard, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Eric La Casa, Gareth Lee Paterson, Matthieu Saladin, Minoru Sato, Thomas Tilly, Chris Watson

Film Programme
— Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Robert Ashley, KK Bosse, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, Abel Gance, Friedrich A. Kittler, Xavier Le Roy, Christian Marclay, Alison O’Daniel, Simon Ripoll-Hurier, Walter Ruttmann, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, Noé Soulier and Jeffrey Mansfield, Andrei Tarkovsky, George W. Veditz, Frederick Wiseman

A (mis)readers Guide to Listening (Therapies)
—Myriam Lefkowitz and Valentina Desideri, Thierry Madiot, Pauline Oliveros and Ione

Readings

Exhibition booklet
— Council, Tarek Atoui, Bergen Assembly

Why Do you do Things Last Minutes
— Raimundas Malašauskas

Reader
— Emma Mc cormick Goodhart (Ed.)