Exhibition on view: 14^th September to 22 November 2018

Time: 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM (Closed on Sunday and Public Holidays)

Venue: Korean Cultural Centre, 25 A, Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi

Curator:  Ish S

Korean Cultural Centre India is organizing exhibition ‘Sound Reasons Festival VI’ which will focus on the Indian and the Asian Sound Art scene. Creative activities will include live performances, workshops and Sound Installations that will happen across various venues in Delhi, Goa and Banglaore. 14 artists are participating in the exhibition: Venzha Christ, Marcus Maeder, Shun Owada, Arnont Nongyao, Salomé Voegelin, Ish S, Cathy Lane, Suvani Suri, Paul Purgas, Diffused beats, Wicked Mannequins, Bidisha Das, Kaushal Sapre and Dipali Gupta.

CURATORS NOTE

The world is heard, its sonic space and time is generated through the complex unity of perception.  At Sound Reasons this listening becomes the center point as an innovative and generative practice, and as a strategy of engagement we explore different curative landscapes each time. The experience of the works presented at the festival show a small spectrum of the possibilities of Sound.  At the Sound Reasons Festival we want to initiate such listening(s) through explorations and inter media intersections as we explore the world and the lived experience through sound.

For the sixth edition of the Sound Reasons Festival we have a great opportunity to represent the Asian Scene with the focus on South East Asian Sound Art. By uniting the artists with similar creative processes and with the focus on the phenomenological and listening, newer curative patterns have emerged. Over the next few months various live performances and Sound installations will be presented tracing these hybrid patterns, with the momentum not settling on broad themes as ushered by the visual arts, but on developing newer languages of interpretations and the experiential.

Sound as a medium is very dynamic and its activities and forms can be experienced and appreciated through a continuous engagement over time. The characteristics of continuity and redefinition are complex, yet vital, to positioning Sound Art as a truly post-modern form. At Sound Reasons I have used an open ended approach to curation in order to navigate the complex waters of Sound Art so that more can be experienced. Therefore, at the Sound Reasons Festival the medium and its processes are always the foci and have to be engaged with and explored. As a medium, 'the sonic frame' in the form of experiences curated and generated here is as intangible as sound itself, and these are redrawn countless times. Definition is not in the history or in socio-political discourse, but it is in the now and in the listening of it. And in this becoming, the imagination becomes more important than the reality, the virtual more significant than the real. The fleeting experience of the sounds and the noise is the construct of the individual themselves and not of their histories and their cognitive developments.