Showcasing outputs of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics INHABIT residency program, “CONTACT ZONES” opens at Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst. Pamela Breda, Victoria Keddie, and Sajan Mani present works informed by four months of dialogue with institute researchers. Keddie’s Pshal P’shaw (2024, image), for example, deconstructs eight American English diphthongs via multi-channel audio, exposing the “primal essence of phonetic expression and its impact on the oral landscape.”

Coinciding with the 8th edition of the ACT Festival, “Planetary Pulse,” a showcase of the Asia Culture Center’s (ACC) residency program opens in Gwangju (KR). Featured are artists including Ahram Jeong, Su Jin Bae and Jonathan Lemke, Kim Joon, Matt Gingold (image: The Absent Orkestra, 2023), and Inhwa Yeom, who were selected from a pool of 340 applicants from 46 countries. Presented in conjunction with the ACC Sound Lab, the show focuses on soundscape and a “postcolonial analysis of the notion of listening.”

Indian artist Rohini Devasher publishes a reflection on her recent CERN residency, outlining efforts to move beyond the standard model of fundamental forces in particle physics—and in her practice. Devasher draws a connection between the “multiplication, magnification, distortion” that black holes rip in space-time with video feedback and shares drawings that map the implications of the “new modes and methodologies of research and practice” she was exposed to in Geneva (image: Beyond the Standard Model, 2023).