LISTEN – Max Neuhaus
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I rubber
stamped
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on each person’s hand and began walking with them down 14th Street towards the East River. After a while I began to do these works as ‘Lecture Demonstrations’. The rubber stamp was the lecture and the walk was the demonstration. I would ask the audience at a concert or lecture to collect outside the hall and would stamp their hands and lead them through their everyday environment. Saying nothing, I would simply concentrate on listening and start walking.
(Max Neuhaus, ‘Listen’, 1990)
(cited and layoutet as in Sound. Documents of Contemporary Art. ed. Caleb Kelly. MIT Press, 2011, pp. 108)
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Max Neuhaus series of ‘Lecture Demonstrations’ was an attempt to lead people through their everyday environment, through city- and landscapes, places well-known, while listening, and gestural attempt to refocus people’s aural perspective.
Bureau for Listening will attempt to reappropriate the simple gesture of ‘Lecture Demonstrations’, both by organized performances and pop-up. Instrumental is the use of the rubber marker.