{"product_id":"9798765136232-listening-on-display","title":"Listening on Display","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExhibiting Sounding Artworks, 1960s to the Present\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates the challenges of exhibiting sounding artworks by studying the listening experiences of artists, curators, and visitors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eListening on Display\u003c\/i\u003e provides an empirical investigation of the historically, culturally, and socially contingent ways in which artists, curators, and visitors relate to sounds in contemporary art exhibitions. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSounding artworks have appeared regularly in contemporary art exhibitions since the 1960s, \u003cbr\u003eyet scholars of art history, musicology, sound studies, and museum studies have long noted \u003cbr\u003ethe experiential difficulties this development poses. They describe how sounds challenge the \u003cbr\u003esensory hierarchy of the museum, how they disrupt the venerable silence of the white cube, \u003cbr\u003eor how they drown in the ambient noise of galleries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the listening experiences of artists, visitors, curators, and technicians \u003cbr\u003ein more than twenty exhibitions that have taken place at contemporary art museums, \u003cbr\u003ealternative art spaces, and other venues in Germany and the United States since the 1960s. \u003cbr\u003eThrough archival research, visitor book analysis, interviews, and observations drawing on \u003cbr\u003esensory ethnography, Semmerling brings together their ideas and ideals about aesthetic \u003cbr\u003eambitions, sensory abilities, cultural conventions, and technological standards. In doing so, this \u003cbr\u003ebook lays the groundwork for rethinking sound in exhibition spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57595149812086,"sku":"9798765136232","price":135.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40627934.jpg?v=1775733808","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9798765136232-listening-on-display","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}