The Whiteness of Echo

  • The always already colonial in archaeoacoustics
Talk

Organiser/Management

Date

  • 22 May 2025 Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich

Keywords

Sound Studies, Field Recording, Archive Studies

Text

The presentation plays and talks through sounds collected from Dr. Goh's fieldwork observing the field of acoustic archaeology, or archaeoacoustics. It proposes understanding the figure of echo as a material-semiotic figuration of sonic knowledge production, which analysis thereof can help us understand contemporary assumptions about sound and sonic matter. It aims to outline how the echo is shaped by coloniality, whiteness and cisheteropatriarchy and on the basis of its limitations, it seeks to re-conceptualise echo as a feminist and decolonial sonic figuration.

Lecturer

Annie Goh

Activity List

Location

Address

  • Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
  • Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
  • 1010 Wien
  • Österreich
Published By: Kristina Pia Hofer | Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien | Publication Date: 29 January 2026, 11:50 | Edit Date: 29 January 2026, 11:50