Non-Cochlear Sound :: Organized by Seth Kim-Cohen for Diapason :: Call for Work — Deadline: June 3, 2010.

Diapason will be working with sound artist and author Seth Kim-Cohen to present an exhibition of Non-Cochlear Sound, as formulated in Kim-Cohen’s book “In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art” (Continuum). The exhibition is scheduled for October, 2010.

Non-Cochlear Sound describes a form of sonic practice not primarily concerned with the ear. Marcel Duchamp’s famous call for a non-retinal visual art was answered (eventually) by minimalism, conceptual art, social-based practice, and a host of approaches that appeal not to the eye, but to other concerns. In his book, Seth Kim-Cohen asks why sound has been slower to make the conceptual, linguistic, and social turns. As a way of responding to this question and of addressing this perhaps unfortunate sonic situation, they seek sound work that engages any or all of the following: sociality, conceptualism, politics, textuality, discursivity, subjectivity, history, economics, or philosophy.

CRITERIA

Major criteria for artist participation:

- Artists working with sound (although the work can include other materials and media as well)
- Work that engages concerns beyond hearing or the senses in general
- No history of previous exhibition, performance, or recording is required

DEADLINE

Submissions to participate are due by June 3, 2010. Participants will be contacted by July 1, 2010.

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions and contact will be by email. Send an email to diapason.info [at] gmail.com that includes the following information in the body:

- Your contact information (Name, Email Address, Phone Number)
- A brief bio/artist background describing what you do in general and what you’ve been doing lately
- A brief statement about how your work relates to the idea of the non-cochlear
- A proposal for the project you would like to include in the exhibition

NOTE: Please do not attach any work-samples or documents. All work samples must be available online, and all information must be submitted in the body of the email.