Anspayaxw

Listening requires intensified concentration and attentiveness toward what one is listening to; linked to notions of desire, anticipation and understanding, it is a striving for possible meaning.

Edited by Berit Fischer and published to accompany an exhibition that attempts to reconcile audio practices with contemporary social and political realities, this book understands listening as agency, gesture, attitude and taking a position. It supplements and develops further the exhibition’s concepts with material by additional artists, offering a comprehensive overview of the notion and politics of listening.

John Wynne's chapter is about his project Anspayaxw, based on an endangered indigenous language in Canada. Other contributors include Andra McCartney, Christine Sun Kim, Brandon LaBelle, Peter Cusack, and Udo Noll.