Resonant Matter: Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality

by Lutz Koepnick

Book Overview

In Resonant Matter , Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonance--the ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objects--as a model of art's fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. In a series of nuanced readings,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150134367X
• ISBN13: 9781501343674
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"