Arts Week: Siren voices with Aura Satz - rewiring memories of technology
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Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
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This event is part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2019 - see the full programme.
With Marina Warner, artist and Royal School of Art lecturer Aura Satz will discuss her project 'Preemptive Listening’, a sound and film work on siren signals in relation to hyper-vigilance and emergency. Satz is working collectively with musicians, historians, philosophers, neuroscientists and more to explore the siren sound as a perceptual trigger of high alert, structuring attention in a state of emergency and inducing affective states of fear and dread, but also as a compositional signal operating at the threshold between civil obedience and disobedience. She posits the siren’s loud glissando wail as a conditioned and learned signal, one that can potentially be rewired.
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