fORUM is Mercer Union’s ongoing series of talks, lectures, interviews, screenings, and performances.
In this talk, Serubiri Moses will consider the phenomenon of sound within the context of the exhibition Paul Maheke: In spite of my own desire to see you disappear, and address the idea of listening in an epistemological context. Here, his case study will be the character of Echo who emerges in Greek mythology, and studies of this character by Gayatri Spivak. Moses will consider the collaboration between Maheke and the musician Ndobo-emma in the making of the sound work currently on view at Mercer Union, while also drawing conclusions on the character of listening in context of dissonance, trauma, and discontinuity. The talk will aim to position Paul Maheke's work in dialogue with a black or Global South feminist framework.