Festival Opening Performative Lecture by Brandon LaBelle

Thursday, 17:30 – 18:00, Netherlands Media Arts Institute (NIMk)

Brandon LaBelle
Q&A, or the further adventures of a sonic body

Exploring the relation of voice and location, LaBelle’s lecture unpacks the ambiguities of presence and mediation. How does speech come to enact a spatial proposal through its insistence on the here and now? And what forms of intimacy can be found within recorded voices and their circulation? To unfold such questions, LaBelle will draw upon recent research in the fields of electronic geographies and the materialization of voice.

Brandon LaBelle (US) is an artist and writer working with sounds, locations, bodies and cultural frictions. His works explore the space between sound and sociality, using performance and on-site constructions as creative supplements to existing conditions.