Curators' Walkthrough: Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen

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Friday 30 May | 2025 |  6.30pm-11pm (Galleries close at 9pm)

Nottingham Contemporary

FREE

This season we are presenting Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen, a thematic group exhibition and associated live programme which considers how sound travels and transitions through cross-cultural identities, histories, and futures. Drawing on writer and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman's methods of 'foraging' and 'disfiguration', the exhibition features sound as the leading medium to consider how artists have listened to and reimagined complex histories.

This ambitious group exhibition and accompanying live programme presents artworks that 'listen back' to uncover silenced or lost histories while also creating new moments to receive and hold historical dissonance. Across all four of our gallery spaces, Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen aims to consider the past as a historical ground to incite emancipatory expressions and practices of reconstitution and solidarity, while inviting audiences to experience and reflect on the many positions from which we listen.

In this walkthrough, our Associate Curator Andrea Zarza Canova joined by Ali Roche, Chief Curator and Salma Tuqan, Director will introduce audiences to the works spanning a range of media including moving image, multi-channel immersive sound installations, reworked historical analogue sound, sculpture, textiles, painting, and performance.

Access

This event will be held in the Galleries. Meet at Reception.

Speakers will use microphones.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.