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2024, V&A Museum [Raffaello Santi’s room], documentation by Mamady Diana 2024, V&A Museum [Raffaello Santi’s room], documentation by New Currency 2024, V&A Museum [Raffaello Santi’s room], documentation by New Currency 2024, V&A Museum [Raffaello Santi’s room], documentation by New Currency 2024, V&A Museum [Raffaello Santi’s room], documentation by New Currency 2024, V&A Museum [Raffaello Santi’s room], documentation by Mamady Diana 2024, V&A Museum [Raffaello Santi’s room], documentation by New Currency 2024, V&A Museum [Raffaello Santi’s room], documentation by New Currency
Humming as a Praxis
Sonic Lecture Series

Contact | Biography | Currently exhibiting


Starting from April 2024 at the V&A Museum, responding to the exhibition Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence. 
This ongoing series explores modes of institutional critique via performance, acoustic mediums and the kinetic crossovers found in between — [at]tending concepts by Jane Rendell “Site-Writing”, the 19th century’s “Tableaux Vivants” (living painting | picture) and Tina Campt’s “Still-Moving-Images”.
 
J. Paris performs as the sound engineer [on set] using a double bass as he builds up tension and cinematic compositions engaging directly with audiences: re-producing the collective silence, echo, attention, gestures, footsteps and hums from the unexpected place. Humming as a Praxis evokes a panoramic analysis on the “capital’s set up” itself through a play around hegemonic ideals of ‘a spectacle’, ‘a rehearsal’, ‘the spectator’ as these roles get blurred through the framework’s rendering point.