Sound installation
With Jamie Allen, Louise Carver, Nina Jäger, Sarrita Hunn, James McAnally, Clémence Hallé, Benoît Verjat, Duncan Evennou and Anne-Sophie Milon

(un)mutable channel collects voices and atmospheres from throughout the Mississippi River Valley. Mediated and spatialized through sound, the multiple and irrepressible flows of the Mississippi River provide an archival backdrop for pivotal streams: recorded and real time discussions with local habitants and activists, interviews with Anthropocene researchers, current news feeds, and live performances.

Framed as the voice of a temporary continent—materially, geographically and mythically constituted—the installation joins the dynamic, processual, and always flowing Mississippi, to populate an estuary of media streams evolving from a turbulent river.

(un)mutable channels contains original materials recorded by Temporary continent. and from Listening to the Mississippi 2015 – 2019 (Monica Moses Haller, Sebastian Muellauer).

The project is part of Canada’s culture program as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020/21 and is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada.

The sound installation will be present at HKW, Berlin, and streamed for the duration of The Shape of a Practice discourse program via the online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org

In addition to the ongoing sound installation that runs for the duration of The Shape of a Practice, individual conversations and soundscapes will occur at the below stated times.