Susan Jahoda, Semi-autonomous sound object, Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects, Installation, wool and wood, 24 x 6 inches, Hirshhorn Museum, June 2023

Susan Jahoda, Semi-autonomous sound object, Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects, Installation, wool and wood, 24 x 6 inches, Hirshhorn Museum, June 2023

Susan Jahoda and Katya Rozanova, Semi-autonomous sound objects, Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects, sound installation, mixed media, Hirshhorn Museum, June 2023

Susan Jahoda and Katya Rozanova, Semi-autonomous sound objects, Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects, sound installation, mixed media, Hirshhorn Museum, June 2023

Susan Jahoda, Semi-autonomous sound object, wool, 12 x 3 inches, June 2023

Susan Jahoda and Katya Rozanova, Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects, Workshop, Hirshhorn Museum, June 2023

Link to Sound Scene 2023: After The End

Sound Scene 2023: After The End

For Sound Scene 2023 at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, Katya Rosanova and I installed a series of site-based, tactile, semi-autonomous sound objects outdoors. Additionally, we offered a workshop, Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects. The project and workshop centered around these questions. How do we live besides sentient and non-sentient others? What are the implications of being in a non-hierarchical relationship with each other, of living beside? Do technological, human, or natural systems need to be “fully known” (dissected, reduced, assimilated, etc.) for nourishing exchanges to happen? The project aimed to create an environment where participants could question assumptions about hierarchies and interdependence with nonhuman others, practice deep listening, and engage in horizontal collaboration. Those encountering Speaking and Listening with Sound Objects were invited to a collaborative, improvisational jam session with our anti-instruments.