Multimedia installation, dimension variables, 2026
It moves, it is movement itself, the figure of X, that names without naming, that evades the logic of enclosure to figure waves of connection instead – X as that “unpronounceable instant” (Lispector) which opens onto a cosmic sense of life. Meditation on X stays-with X as a “music without melody” whose vibrations connect across inner and outer, from the deep roots to the aerial dimensions. By way of explorative conversations and choreographies developed collaboratively that take as their starting point a research into inner listening, to attend to that inner memorial that carries the story of the body, the work unfolds a process of discovery and attunement, to embody the body within the body, which is a body that recovers itself, that inhabits a poetic ecology of vitality. Meditation on X brings together audio-video materials, along with drawings, masks, diagrams and textiles, creating a vibrational assemblage. In addition, a number of workshops are organized, inviting participants into theoretical and material activity, to experiment with listening methodologies and ways of cultivating a cosmic sense of life.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer, theorist, and artistic director of The Listening Biennial. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives, including Communities in Movement (2019-23), Oficina de Autonomia (2017-), The Living School (2014-16), The Imaginary Republic (2014-19), Dirty Ear Forum (2013-22), Surface Tension (2003-2008), and Beyond Music Sound Festival (1998-2002). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: Poetics of Listening (2025), Dreamtime X (2022), Acoustic Justice (2021), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian (2012), Acoustic Territories (2010), and Background Noise (2006).
Webpage: www.brandonlabelle.net
Instagram: @b_llabelle
On view from September 26. until October 11. at: HAUNT
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Performative Talk: Brandon LaBelle, October 4. 2 pm / HAUNT
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Workshops: ( ether o ) Chia-Liang Lai, October 1. 2 pm / HAUNT
Patricia Hegglin, October 8. 2 pm / HAUNT
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Photo: Meditation on X (The Third Archive), 2025 – Brandon LaBelle with Oihana Altube, María Escobar, Catalina Mahecha, Raúl Marcos, África Nieto, Fátima Cué Pérez