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Older than the tongues that named me
Bianca Baldi is an artist whose work explores history, meaning, and knowledge production, often through narrative, fiction, and the reconfiguration of historical contexts and events. In this interview, Baldi speaks about her relationship to writing and sound, the documentary image, and narrative. She reflects on how she navigates personal and collective histories of land, colonial exploitation, and belonging through sound and image, temporal constructions, and the embodied ‘voice’ of a sycamore tree.
The audio piece features an original composition with choral vocals by Gabi Motuba and sound design by Andrei van Wyk. The composition was workshopped as a sonic dialogue with a poem Baldi wrote in response to a 1939 photograph of the artist’s grandfather in Ethiopia.
Notes from below brings together the works of artists and musicians whose research, poetics, and sound practices are coupled with an understanding of the below as that which is beneath – the quiet, inaudible yet present. Their works demonstrate how inherited forms and traditions inform lineages, yet are unstable and open to change and adaptation. History, memory and knowledge are re-encoded through art practice and cast across generations and geographies. Notes from Below asks for us to look and listen closer to the cultural and epistemic transfers that occur on micro and macro levels, in personal and communal spaces.
https://parastatal.art/sound-series/@nfb
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By ParastatalBianca Baldi is an artist whose work explores history, meaning, and knowledge production, often through narrative, fiction, and the reconfiguration of historical contexts and events. In this interview, Baldi speaks about her relationship to writing and sound, the documentary image, and narrative. She reflects on how she navigates personal and collective histories of land, colonial exploitation, and belonging through sound and image, temporal constructions, and the embodied ‘voice’ of a sycamore tree.
The audio piece features an original composition with choral vocals by Gabi Motuba and sound design by Andrei van Wyk. The composition was workshopped as a sonic dialogue with a poem Baldi wrote in response to a 1939 photograph of the artist’s grandfather in Ethiopia.
Notes from below brings together the works of artists and musicians whose research, poetics, and sound practices are coupled with an understanding of the below as that which is beneath – the quiet, inaudible yet present. Their works demonstrate how inherited forms and traditions inform lineages, yet are unstable and open to change and adaptation. History, memory and knowledge are re-encoded through art practice and cast across generations and geographies. Notes from Below asks for us to look and listen closer to the cultural and epistemic transfers that occur on micro and macro levels, in personal and communal spaces.
https://parastatal.art/sound-series/@nfb