Preemptive Listening

Synopsis

In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, ‘Preemptive Listening’ is an ode to the sirens of a changing world. Will we hear them in advance? Does an alarm have to be alarming?

Director Biography

Aura Satz (b. 1974, Barcelona) is a London-based artist based who works with film, sound, performance and sculpture. Her works explore a distributed, expanded and shared notion of voice, and are made in conversation, using dialogue as both method and subject matter. Satz has made several film portraits of listening and compositional practices as well as works centred on sound technology and unusual notation systems. ‘Preemptive Listening’ is her first feature, with support from an artist’s residencies at Walker Arts Centre and EMPAC,and funded by an AHRC fellowship hosted at the Royal College of Art.