About

During an excavation, a rock formation in the shape of the buccal cavity is found. Tremors in the form of punctuations, utterances, whispers, mumbles, mutterings, stutters and incoherent narrations pulse through its surfaces. Riddled with what seem to be hysterical-historical narrations, the architectonics of the mouth becomes a chamber for entangled sounding and listening. 


The densely packed collections of vocal fragments in the object on view, however, are heard only when they come in contact with a listening body. Straining to be ‘heard’, the abject of the archive leaks out of the oral/ aural objects—each discrete listen forming microsites of psychical, biopolitical and geohistorical events and encounters.

About the Artist

Suvani Suri is an artist and researcher based in New Delhi. She works with sound, text, and intermedia assemblages and has been exploring various modes of transmission such as podcasts, auditory texts, sonic environments, objects, installations, fictions, experimental workshops, and live interventions.

Her research interests lie in the relational and speculative capacities of listening, voice, aural/oral histories, and the spectral dispositions of sound that can activate critical imaginations. Actively engaged in thinking through the techno-politics that listening is embedded in, her practice is informed by the processes of production, mediation, perception, and distribution of sound. Alongside, she composes sound for video and performance works and teaches at several universities and educational spaces where her pedagogical interests conflate with a sustained inquiry into the digital and sonic sensorium.

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