Geelia Ronkina is a writer based in London.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
This text considers recent work by the artist Park McArthur, in proposing that the materiality of disability access and the concept of dependency are the constitutive ground for what is often deemed site-specificity in contemporary art.