Friday 27 September 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Vibrations across worlds: sonic atmospheres in Heather Phillipson’s Out of this World
Join us for this free talk with Dr Philipa Lovatt!
What does it mean to think of atmosphere as media? In this talk, Dr Philippa Lovatt will explore the atmospheric and vibrational qualities of Heather Phillipson’s installation Out of this World, and the role of sound in communicating immaterial and ephemeral phenomena, while drawing connections with Margaret Watts Hughes’s work through their shared interest in vibration.
Responding to Phillipson’s description of Out of this World as “a visual and acoustic fog,” the talk will discuss different approaches to ‘elemental media’ in order to think through the relationship between experiences of material and immaterial phenomenon, across human and more-than-human worlds. Moving from brief comparisons with other artists who have used fog in order to evoke the imbrication of political, military, and environmental histories in Japan and Thailand, such as Nakaya Fujiko and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, to Sung Tieu’s exploration of the psychological effects of sonic warfare in Vietnam and Cuba, Lovatt asks: how does the sonic shift scalar registers from the intimate and embodied, to the atmospheric and the climatic?
Dr Philippa Lovatt is a Lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews where she researches and teaches film sound; ecocinemas, and artists’ moving image. She is currently working on a book about sound and environmental histories called Reverberant Histories: expanded listening in artists’ film in Southeast Asia.
This event is part of a programme of activities to celebrate Heather Phillipson’s Out of this World exhibition.
Free, booking essential.
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Heather Phillipson: Out of this World. An IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund commission in partnership with Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.
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Telephone: 01792 516900
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