Listening on Display
Exhibiting Sounding Artworks, 1960s to the Present
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 5 February 2026
- ISBN 9798765136232
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 232x160x20 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language 685
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Short description:
Investigates the challenges of exhibiting sounding artworks by studying the listening experiences of artists, curators, and visitors.
MoreLong description:
Listening on Display 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.
Sounding artworks have appeared regularly in contemporary art exhibitions since the 1960s,
yet scholars of art history, musicology, sound studies, and museum studies have long noted
the experiential difficulties this development poses. They describe how sounds challenge the
sensory hierarchy of the museum, how they disrupt the venerable silence of the white cube,
or how they drown in the ambient noise of galleries.
This book explores the listening experiences of artists, visitors, curators, and technicians
in more than twenty exhibitions that have taken place at contemporary art museums,
alternative art spaces, and other venues in Germany and the United States since the 1960s.
Through archival research, visitor book analysis, interviews, and observations drawing on
sensory ethnography, Semmerling brings together their ideas and ideals about aesthetic
ambitions, sensory abilities, cultural conventions, and technological standards. In doing so, this
book lays the groundwork for rethinking sound in exhibition spaces.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Listening on Display
1. Studying Exhibitions with Sounding Artworks: Methodological Reflections
2. The Exhibition as Social Ritual: How to Do Things with Sound
3. The Exhibition as Institutional Convention: Rehearsing Sensory Repertoires
4. The Exhibition as Taskscape: Negotiations of Attention
Conclusions: Beyond Noisy White Cubes and Silent Black Boxes
Appendix: Exhibition Overview
Bibliography
Index
