Recording and listening back to recorded speech has been a key form of engagement with Audio Arts magazine since the outset of the project in 1973 by artist William Furlong and collaborators. But what does change when the act of listening and playing back becomes a shared form of participation within the space of an archive?
Through a guided presentation of recordings presented in conversation with Susan Hiller, this sound seminar will invite participants to discover early sound works and conversations recorded by and presented by Audio Arts as well a temporary display of archive material from the Audio Arts collection including paper records and sound recordings produced in collaboration with the contributors and founders of the magazine Wallpaper (1975).
The event is part of Activating Audio Arts Archive, a research project initiated by Lucia Farinati in collaboration with Kingston University and Tate Archive, which investigates the history and the legacy of the Audio Arts magazine through the narration of four episodes constructed around the presentation of an original material selected from its archive. Find out more information about this research project.
The Reading Rooms display is open to visitors between 12.00–14.00 with a ticketed talk at 13.00.
Material for this Show and Tell will be selected by Lucia Farinati (Kingston University) and Clare Sexton (Tate Archive).