As a material index of acoustic activity, the term ‘sound fossil’ has gained currency in the fields of paleosonics and contemporary art both as a means of accounting for the appearance of the past in the present, and as an embodiment of cosmic time. Drawing upon audible and not so audible projects, art historian Amelia Barikin presents her lecture: Sound Fossils and Arche-Fossils: Towards a mineral ontology of contemporary art.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/sound-fossils

Histories and Theories of Sound

22 October, 2015

Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Discipline and Gertrude Contemporary.

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

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