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Schuppli, Susan and Tlalim, Tom (2014) Uneasy Listening. [Art/Design Item]
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| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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| Creators: | Schuppli, Susan and Tlalim, Tom |
| Description: | Surround-sound audio installation that simulates the 150 kHz frequency and loitering of armed combat drones in FATA, Pakistan. Created in Supercollider & Protools. Plexi-mounted digital C-print of President Barak Obama. As US strategies around the War on Terror shifted from secret prisons and detention camps to targeted assassination under the Obama Administration in 2009, Predator and Reaper drones have come to saturate the airspace over the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Northwest Pakistan. These armed drones search of targets whose names are provided by the weekly Kill List compiled on infamous “Terror Tuesdays” at the White House. Their ubiquitous presence signaled by high-frequency emissions has become a permanent feature of the skies along the Afghan border. Although various organizations, most notably the Bureau of Investigative Journalism based in the UK, try to maintain comprehensive datasets of reported casualties (fatalities and injuries) from drone strikes in Pakistan, these numbers do not begin to represent the injurious nature of what it means to live under the constant sonic menace of drones. |
| Additional Information (Publicly available): | Commissioned by Casino Luxembourg with additional support provided by Canada Council for the Arts |
| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Sound Art, Sound Studies, Global Politics, Drones, UAV, Listening, Forensic, Spatial Architecture, Biennale, Globalisation |
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Wimbledon College of Arts |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Funders: | Casino Luxembourg, Canada Council for the Arts |
| Related Websites: | https://casino-luxembourg.lu/fr/casino-channel/susan-schuppli-tom-tlalim |
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| Related Publications: | Schuppli, S., Tlalim, T. and Hoare, N. (2015) ‘In Conversation’, in D. Ayas, A. Kleinman, and centrum voor hedendaagse kunst Witte de With (eds) Art in the age of... Rotterdam: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, pp. 150–155 |
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Reporting from the Front, Venice Biennale/ Architecture 28 May 2016 27 November 2016 Art in the Age of...Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam 2016 Distances, Jupiter Wood, London 13 March 2015 28 March 2015 Lecture Performance, The Mosaic Rooms, London 2015 Hlysnan: The Notion and Politics of Listening, Casino Luxembourg 28 May 2014 7 September 2017 Lecture Performance, Artline, The Wind Tunnel Project Farnborough 2014 |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2024 15:15 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2024 15:16 |
| Item ID: | 21722 |
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/21722 |
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