Maria Gil Ulldemolins is an artistic researcher working as a postdoctoral assistant in the Architecture and Art faculty of Hasselt University, Belgium. Her current interests mix interiority, interiors, textual architecture, and soft materials. Her practice is mostly writing, leaning on autotheoretical, performative, and hybrid approaches. She is one of the co-founders of Passage, a peer-reviewed journal for experimental scholarly writing.
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 pseudo-pantoum’s sections degrade as the text evolves, mimicking tissue decay. The text references one of Heidi Bucher’s latex artworks, braiding it with the considerations of care brought by a loved one’s sudden, open-ended medical diagnosis.