Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen
- Satch Hoyt, This Dream is Serial Not Token, 2017. Courtesy the artist.
In Summer 2025, Nottingham Contemporary will present Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen, a thematic group exhibition and associated live programme which considers how sound travels and transitions through cross-cultural identities, histories, and futures. Drawing on writer and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman’s methods of “foraging” and “disfiguration” the exhibition will feature sound as the leading medium to consider how artists have listened to and reimagined complex histories.
This ambitious group exhibition and accompanying live programme presents artworks that “listen back” to uncover silenced or lost histories while also creating new moments to receive and hold historical dissonance. Across all four galleries at Nottingham Contemporary, Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen aims to consider the past as a historical ground to incite emancipatory expressions and practices of reconstitution and solidarity, while inviting audiences to experience and reflect on the many positions from which we listen.
Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen presents international, multi-generational practices, including new commissions by Satch Hoyt, Raheel Khan and Dylan Robinson, alongside works by Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Hong-Kai Wang, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, amongst others. The artworks span a range of media including moving image, multi-channel immersive sound installations, reworked historical analogue sound, sculpture, textiles, painting, and performance.
Exhibition:
Your Ears Later Will Know to ListenDates:
31 May 2025 – 7 Sep 2025, Launch party on Fri 30 MayArtists:
Hellen Ascoli, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Sky Hopinka, Satch Hoyt, Yee I-Lann, Arturo Kameya, Raheel Khan, Zahra Malkani, John Peffer, Dylan Robinson, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Hajra Waheed and Hong-Kai Wang.
Credits:
This exhibition is the outcome of a partnership between Nottingham Contemporary and University of Nottingham initially conceived and developed with Paul Hegarty as an AHRC/Midlands4Cities funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with PhD candidate Andrea Zarza Canova.
The exhibition and associated live programme are co-curated by Nottingham Contemporary and Andrea Zarza Canova.
Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen was developed with insights from a group of critical friends including:
Dylan Robinson (Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Music), Bhavisha Panchia (Johannesburg based independent curator and researcher of visual and audio culture), Pablo José Ramírez (curator at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles), Kamila Metwaly (Berlin/Cairo based music journalist, electronic musician and curator) and Merv Espina (Manila based artist and curator).
Supporters:
Generously supported by the Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen Exhibition Circle.
Raheel Khan’s commission was made possible with the support of New Art Exchange's Reside residency programme. Raheel Khan’s production residency in Nottingham was made possible through the support of BACKLIT Gallery.
Hong-Kai Wang’s Southern Clairaudience: Some Sound Documents for a Future Act is supported by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan.
Satch Hoyt’s commission is supported by Goethe Institut.
Commissioning Circle:
Nissreen Darawish, Gabriela Galcerán, Hamza Serafi, Carlo Solari and Paula del Sol, and those who wish to remain anonymous.
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