Event Glot: Four Conversations on Voice

Glot: Four Conversations on Voice

Book launch

24 August 2024
11AM-12PM

Join us for the launch of Glot: Four Conversations on Voice. This book accompanies the exhibition Glot at Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, in upstate New York, curated by Meanjin/Brisbane’s Sophie Rose.

The Greek suffix ‘glot’ means ‘to have a tongue’. Rose’s exhibition reflects on elements of vocal expression that exceed linguistic construction. Her reader features interviews with the four participating artists: Shahrzad Changalvaee, JJJJJerome Ellis, Nour Mobarak, and Anri Sala. Their discussions explore a politics of speech beyond clear articulation residing in the material of voice itself, a politics which can both carry and disturb a speaker’s intention.

Hear Rose in conversation with artist Shahrzad Changalvaee (online) and purchase a copy of Glot from our Gallery Shop.

Guest Info
  • Sophie Rose is a curator and writer working on Gadigal Country, Sydney. She has contributed to exhibitions and publications at MoMA PS1, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson; and Queensland Art Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane, where she was previously Assistant Curator. In 2022, she was awarded the Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO John Monash Scholarship to support her Master of Arts at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

    Shahrzad Changalvaee is a Tehran-born, Brooklyn-based artist, working in sculpture and performance, photography and video. Her exhibitions include In Absentia, In Effigie, The Chimney, New York, 2019; The Understandables Always Arrive from Far Away, Soho20, New York, 2018; and You Cannot the Same River Twice, O Gallery, Tehran, 2016. She was in the 2015 Shanghai Biennial.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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