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Sahar Te’s Listening Attends (2021) offers contemplations on how objects might speak, and whether silence or barely audible sound can be charged. Taking the form of a Toyota Tacoma with a large PA sound system, the work is a reference to the use of imposing, aggressive vehicles to control crowds. Te notes that in her experiences that inspired this work, vehicles like this sustain dominance over a mass of people, even in a DIY state and stillness.

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Listening Attends, 2021
Rendering
KHAAREJ No. 2, 2017

performance in Shannon Bool’s exhibition The Eastern Carpet in the Western World Revisited at Illingworth Kerry Gallery, Calgary. Photo: Chelsea Yang-Smith.
KHAAREJ No. 2, 2017

Listening Attends (2021)

SAHAR TE