Title: |
SOMA: Listening Lessons |
Artists: |
diverse (Gilles Aubry, Ludwig Berger, Nikki Buzzi, Christophe Fellay, Jazmina Figueroa, Laurent Güdel, Franziska Koch, Tobias Maria Koch, Alban Schelbert, Yanik Soland, Liv Tavor, Diego Villalobos, Julian Zehnder, LABOUR) |
| Editor: | Kristina Grigorjeva |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Format: | Publication; 96 pages, 27 × 18.6 cm |
| Text: | Gilles Aubry, Ludwig Berger, Nikki Buzzi, Christophe Fellay, Jazmina Figueroa, Laurent Güdel, Franziska Koch, Tobias Maria Koch, Alban Schelbert, Yanik Soland, Liv Tavor, Diego Villalobos, Julian Zehnder, LABOUR |
| Language: | English |
| Design: | Romy Strasser, NEW ASSEMBLY |
| ISBN: | 978-3-907690-06-2 |
| Price: | CHF 28.00 |
SOMA is a curatorial inquiry by Kristina Grigorjeva, unfolding through 14 questions posed to 14 contemporary sound artists. Each question traces listening not as method but as a relational, embodied, and situated practice. Through this dialogic form, the book composes a dispersed score of somatic sensitivities, where attention flickers, sound unsettles, and bodies become porous sites of encounter. Echoing Pauline Oliveros and Sarah Ahmed, listening emerges as a politics of presence—as social, spatial, and affective negotiation. It is not what is heard, but how we hear each other, that begins to matter. Listening becomes a social practice.