Courtesy: Elin Már Øyen Vister
e-flux presents You Can’t Trust Music (YCTM)—a digital exhibition and research project.
Working from an assumption that internal and external soundscapes resonate in collective execution, You Can’t Trust Music (YCTM) is a research project connecting sound-based artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers who explore the way that landscape, acoustics and musical thought contribute to the formation of social and political structures. This project was developed by Xenia Benivolski, with significant support from Julieta Aranda, throughout 2020 and 2021, a time when people were confined to their homes and one of the only ways to be transported was through the body’s association of the sonic with the spatial. YCTM is a digital exhibition whose primary medium is sound and music, accompanied by texts that complement, rather than explain.
The digital exhibition has now reached its fourth and final chapter examining "the movement of the earth against the world" (Harney and Moten, 2017).
YCTM, Chapter 4: To Hold the World Audible
The artists who contributed to this final chapter of YCTM 'To Hold the World Audible' examine the sonic response-ability of the world that struggles to free itself of humanity.
Starting with memories and dreams intercepted by sound in film and moving towards the felt effects of climate change and extinction, the chapter holds space for an empathic future where human-centred civilities become holistic code.
This chapter is co-presented with Infrasonica and with Kunsthall Trondheim.
With works and texts by: Abhijan Toto, Koichi Shimizu, Elin Már Øyen Vister, Kite, Lawrence Lek, Reem Shadid and Rachael Rakes.
Special thanks to Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Theresa Wang, Jayne Wilkinson and Robert Steenkamer.
Elin Már Øyen Vister’s multi-channel sound installation Vedøya - lament to the bird mountain who lost its voice, # 1 (2022) is presented by, and with, You Can’t Trust Music (YCTM), on the occasion of Øyen Vister’s collaborative exhibition Kunna Guanna Concha with Sissel M. Bergh and Carolina Caycedo, which also includes works by Janicke Schønning and David de Rozas. YCTM is a research project presented by e-flux, that connects sound-based artists, musicians, writers, composers, and writers and explores the way that landscape, acoustics, and musical thought contribute to the formation of social and political structures.
You Can’t Trust Music (YCTM) is a research project connecting sound-based artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers who explore the way that landscape, acoustics and musical thought contribute to the formation of social and political structures.
This project is presented on a platform designed by Knoth&Renner and developed by Knoth&Renner with Jonas Holfeld;
YCTM on e-flux.com is made possible with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. It is produced by e-flux and developed in partnership with M WOODS, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Liquid Architecture, Kunsthall Trondheim, and Infrasonica.