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Bido Lito! February 2015
Illustration: Scott Duffey / scottduffey.co.uk
Think back to the last song you heard and try and weigh up
how much you actually connected with it. You heard, but did you
listen? Did you hear the sounds, process their meaning, and react
to them? Did you just use your ears to listen? The act, even art, of
listening is far more involved than our sense of hearing, and it’s a
skill which is as profound to our way of communicating as being
able to articulate.
Currently running at The Bluecoat, LISTENING is a
groundbreaking exhibition – the latest Hayward Touring Curatorial
Open exhibition – which examines the crossover between the
visual and the sonic, with many of the selected artists working
in the fields of both contemporary music and art. Featuring a
variety of media, from drawings and sculpture to prints and video,
and with works ranging dramatically in duration from less than
a second to six hours, Listening is an orchestration of works that
curator Sam Belinfante claims “interrogates the act و\