Wolf Tones

Save the date for the opening of Wolf Tones on Saturday 3rd of October!

Wolf Tones presents the work of six artists as a refracted analogy of an acoustic phenomenon. The wolf tone is an irregular vibration produced by a musical instrument, such as the cello. It is the result of an acoustic conflict, when the vibrations made by an instrument’s string and those produced by its wooden body are too similar to harmonize yet are unable to resolve into one another. The wolf tone is best described as a feedback loop of howling sound.

Borrowed from Sara Nadal Melsió recent book, Europe and the Wolf, the term provides an experiential framework for artwork that vibrates irregularly. The artists presented have an elliptical understanding of belonging, which makes their engagement with film, classical music, and other systems for the organization of being echo in the context of art like a wolf tone. They articulate mobile, non-linear narratives about the past, the future, and, crucially, the possibility of imaginative rehabilitation in the wake of violence. Each exhibited work is both a resounding howl and a proposition.

Wolf Tones is curated by Myriam Amroun and Natasha Marie Llorens. It is the first exhibition in a cycle of four in an artistic research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, “Decolonization is Not A Metaphor.” The aim of this broader research is to flesh out the notion of “minor transnationalism” in curatorial practice as a critical approach to decoloniality in the arts.

The project has received support from OCA, the Norwegian Arts Council and the Danish Arts Council