Talk by Ella Finer

On 17 October 2024, writer and researcher Ella Finer gave a talk in response to Buhlungu’s commission, exploring how bodies of water disrupt claims to knowledge, history, and power.

Ella Finer’s work in sound and performance spans writing, composing, and curating with a particular interest in how bodies acoustically disrupt, challenge, or change occupations of space. Her research continuously queries the ownership of cultural expression through sound; often through collaborative projects centring listening as a practice of deep attention, affiliation and reciprocity. She is working on a book of essays: Acoustic Commons and the Wild Life of Sound, while Silent Whale Letters, a correspondence project with Vibeke Mascini and edited by Kate Briggs, was published by Sternberg Press in 2023.

Video: Reynir Hutber