Departing from the questions and lines of approach that serve to articulate the exhibition Listening with your hands. Obsolete media, ephemeral messages, this visit will examine the works that are part of it from an eminently philosophical perspective. What does it mean to listen with your hands? Is it possible to do such a thing? Where does the materiality of sound begin and where does it end? Have we really stopped listening with our hands, with our skin, with our body?

And regarding the obsolescence of analogue media and their degradation over time, how do they allow us to think about the notions of presence and absence, appearance, and disappearance? Although it is presented as a tour throughout the exhibition, this visit will pay special attention to Alvin Lucier’s work I am sitting in a room, one of the most important sound creations of the 20th century both for its methodological originality as well as for its conceptual and philosophical value.

Arnau Horta is a curator, critic, researcher, and teacher. Both in his curatorial activity and in his work in the field of research and dissemination, he mainly deals with the analysis of sound and listening from a phenomenological and political perspective.