Bhavisha Panchia
Panchia’s Imagine You are In a Museum: What do you hear? is an audio collage of musical tracks, interviews, and ambient sounds. Produced as a curatorial response to the impact of colonialism on cultural production, we hear muffled voices, bodies moving and robotic readings of empirical data. Panchia, researching the politics of how we hear, who is heard, and, conversely, who and what is missing from the soundscape begins Imagine You are In a Museum: What do you hear? by describing the concept of phonomnesis – the sensation of remembering or imagining sound. Her question, “What do you hear?” considers the museum’s involvement in colonial history. What would you hear, were you to explore alternative soundscapes or adopt new ways of listening?
b.1985, Durban; works in Johannesburg.