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The Heard and the Unheard - Soundscape Taiwan

The Heard and the Unheard explores Taiwan’s social soundscape. “Sound,” as protagonist of the exhibition, appears both in its role as a medium and as a metaphorical site for political actions. By adopting sound as both substance and aesthetic form, the exhibition explores the non-mainstream cultural context of contemporary Taiwanese society through the work of two artists and the inclusion of the Sound Library/Bar.

Hong-Kai Wang’s Music While We Work investigates the collective experience of listening and recording at a specific social space of labor and production. Returning to her hometown Huwei, Taiwan, Wang collaborates with an over 100-year-old sugar factory and invites a group of retired workers and their spouses to return to the historic industrial site. Through recording workshops they learn to take charge of the microphone and to later record sounds found at their former workplace.

Yu-Hsien Su’s Sounds of Nothing is about the lives of common people, including foreign boatmen, a scavenger and a vagrant. Invited participants make their own “music” and Su compiles their recordings into albums under his newly-launched label “indi-indi.” The albums, with people’s unpracticed, dissonant or improvised music, highlight the existence of individuals and provide a metaphor for different voices in society.

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Ticket: ingresso libero
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from Jun 4, 11 to Nov 27, 11
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Palazzo delle Prigioni
Riva degli Schiavoni, San Marco 4209 - 30124 Venezia
Centro Storico
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