Salomé Voegelin

Salomé Voegelin is an artist, writer and researcher engaged in listening as a sociopolitical practice. She writes essays and text-scores for performance and publication. Books include Sonic Possible Worlds (2014/21), The Political Possibility of Sound (2018) and Listening to Noise and Silence (2010). Her new book, Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands (2023) moves curation through the double negative of not not to “uncuration”, untethering knowledge from the expectations of reference and a canonical frame, and reconsidering art as political, not in its message or aim but by the way in which it confronts the institution. Voegelin’s practice engages in participatory, collective and communal approaches. Between 2014 and 2020 she co-convened, with Mark Peter Wright, the regular cross-disciplinary listening and sound-making event “Points of Listening” (see www.pointsoflistening.wordpress.com). Since 2008 she collaborates with David Mollin (as Mollin+Voegelin) in a practice that reconsiders sociopolitical, architectural and aesthetic actualities and sites from the blind spots of a leaky vision, and the possibilities of sound, things, voices and texts. Voegelin is a Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She is the PI (Principal Investigator) of the UK research council funded project the Sounding Knowledge Network. See www.salomevoegelin.net and @soundwords_sv.