Sung Tieu: Acousmatic Paranoia

The second instalment of the symposia series Sonic Continuum, our long-term research strand investigating social architectures of time and practices of world-making through sound, features our exhibiting artist, Sung Tieu, thinkers and musicians to explore sonic warfare, and the psychoacoustic dimensions of fear.

Acousmatic Paranoia expands on Sung Tieu’s artistic practice, which questions geopolitics, sonic infrastructures and their factual ambiguity. It reflects on the way sound frequencies can redefine spaces of conflict by introducing political possibilities and auditory imaginaries. In her talk, Tieu discusses her research on acoustic weaponry, from the “Ghost Tape 10,” an audio track used in the Vietnamese-American war, to “Havana Syndrome,” as well as their psychological, media and political aftermath. Tieu interrogates how journalistic language and advertising strategies, are used to convey political beliefs and discusses her first publication, co-published in collaboration with Haus der Kunst, Munich, in dialogue with Cédric Fauq, Exhibitions Curator at Nottingham Contemporary.

Talks by Steve Goodman (Kode9), Toby Heys and Luciana Parisi discuss uses of acoustic force and the sonic mobilisation of bodies in conflict scenarios, the near-future scenario of military research in hypersonicity and augmentations of audition to include the inaudible, informed by theories of post- and in-humanism.

Programme details will be added soon.

Free. Booking recommended.

In collaboration with the Creative and Digital Interdisciplinary Research Cluster at the University of Nottingham.