Coming to Know

An Archaeology of Listening, Volume 2
Edited by Nida Ghouse and Brooke Holmes
Haus der Kulturen der Welt / archive books
104 pages, English
ISBN: 978-3-948212-58-2
Price: €20

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How might listening to the past together transform the sense of the knowledge held in common? The publication Coming to Know sets aside the visual techniques of the archaeological site, the museum and the larger project of colonial modernity and instead constitutes itself as a resonant structure – a future-oriented monument to historically situated listening bodies as well as a dwelling place for community now.

With contributions by Tanvi Solanki, Mark Payne, Annie Goh, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Annette Wilke, Andrew Ollett, Anurima Banerji, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Phiroze Vasunia and others.

Jul 23–Sep 20, 2020

A Slightly Curving Place

Isipabbarabhumi is a Prakrit phrase from Jain cosmology referring to a special place above the heavens shaped like a parasol. It is where the disembodied souls of the perfected ones go to live in eternal isolation. There, sealed off from the rest of the cosmos, they are unable to interact with other souls, unable to hear them or be heard.

Coming to Know

A Slightly Curving Place