The Elephant in Another Room
Taking up the life cycle of a key modern technology—radio—this podcast in time and space takes up the way cultural voices have freed themselves from the physical limits of human speech. With a nod to the pre-history of radio in Victorian seances, the phonograph, and the telephone, the exhibition documents and imagines how disembodied voices have fueled language and dialogue from afar. What does it mean to transmit that most intimate & daily of human exchanges—the speech act—across a distance where bodies are no longer present in the same space, if those voices occur in the same time?
