The work of Brazilian-German sound artist and composer Laura Mello is the outcome of listening to the in-betweens, taking sound as the starting point to establish unheard connections. She explores the auditory dimensions of spoken language to deconstruct and reconstruct (de-)colonial perspectives, challenging established epistemologies. 

Laura’s projects emerge in multiple formats and evolve from interdisciplinary and often site-specific investigations.

www.lauramello.org

Intangible Sound of Contact - Istanbul

A project using sound as a tool to investigate the contact between different cultures. Understanding the word ‘culture’ in a broader, from micro to macro-sociological extended sense. What is the sound of culture contact? How to transport ancient cosmoauditions with sound? How can this knowledge influence us today? Is there a post-colonial way of listening? 

Intangible Sound of Contact reflects on the history of the early 20th century, the time of the so-called neo-Colonialism, of flourishing industry and the run for energy sources. Starting from the foundation of the German colony Blumenau in Brazil in 1850 (Laura Mello’s hometown), the artist draws a line leading up to the present day and raises questions about the consequences of racial supremacism and dichotomies such as wildness vs. civilization.

Speakers: Aaron Snyder, Laura Mello, Petra Nachtmanova, Zach Hart
Music: Petra Nachtmanova, Çağrı Bangevaz, Laura Mello
Writer: Laura Mello

Song for an Undefined Object


In a series of performances, Laura Mello writes, I understand myself as a person-in-sound, a being-in-voice, with two ears and multiple mouths, from where the influence of multiple cultures speak out. As an outcome of this search for a new artistic perspective, I express myself in site specific performances wearing a loudspeaker-costume, built in collaboration with Lisa Simpson and Albert Amerioun. Song for an Undefined Object was created for one of these performances.

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