Ways of Sensing: Signals in Circulation

Signals are not fixed messages; they take shape as they move. Ways of Sensing #2 presents three works that use language, sound, and networked images to interrogate systems and their associated notions of time, control, and circulation.

Working with diagrams, networks, and archives, the artists guide words, sounds, and images through connected and isolated systems, setting processes in motion without fully determining their outcome. In doing so they reveal how technical, material, and ideological frameworks are embedded in everyday life.

While all three works foreground systems that move beyond individual control, they do so in distinct ways. Luca Tornato’s performance approaches language as a site of conflict and domination, mobilising text, speech, and distortion to expose how writing has historically functioned as an instrument of power. In contrast, Puck Wacki’s work focuses on the material and spatial behaviour of sound itself, constructing a network of interconnected chambers in which resonance, feedback, and chance shape the sonic outcome. Geo Barcan’s video work extends these concerns into the social life of digital networks, examining the past, present, and future of internet cultures in the Romanian town of Buhuși.

Please note this program contains loud sounds.

The people at iii have kindly offered a limited amount of free tickets for Subbacultcha members. Please make a reservation by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with ‘Ways of Sensing: Signals in Circulation’ in the subject line + your name in the email.

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