Postcommodity’s Ears Between Worlds Are Always Speaking, 2017, reimagined LRAD technology—commonly associated with policing and crowd control—as a medium for listening, storytelling, and reflection. Installed in the ruins of the Lyceum in Athens, where Aristotle developed his Peripatetic School, the daylong, two-channel, four-act sound work brought contemporary questions of displacement, movement, and collective memory into dialogue with a site historically linked to teaching and learning through walking and exchange.
Using hyper-directional speakers capable of projecting sound across long distances, the indigenous collective reversed the logic of acoustic control. Instead of intimidation, the work carried layered voices, songs, and narratives in multiple languages, transforming a technology of force into one of resonance and relation. In this context, listening became a way of engaging with histories of migration, self-determination, and shared learning.
Working closely with the artist collective since their first visit to Athens in early 2016, I was in charge of:
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