Coming to Know - Archive Books

Coming to Know asks how listening to the past together might transform our sense of the knowledge held in common. It sets aside the visual techniques of the archaeological site, the museum, and the larger project of colonial modernity, and instead constitutes itself as a resonant structure—a future-oriented monument to historically situated listening bodies as well as a dwelling place for community now.

About the series

This book was conceived in relation to the programme Coming to Know, accompanying the exhibition A Slightly Curving Place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2020. It is the second in a series of volumes titled An Archaeology of Listening.

Coming to Know

with Umashankar Manthravadi

Edited by

Nida Ghouse and Brooke Holmes

Contributions by Tanvi Solanki, Mark Payne, Annie Goh, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Annette Wilke, Andrew Ollett, Anurima Banerji, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Phiroze Vasunia , and others.

Published in collaboration with

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Printed by

Bianca & Volta, Milan

English
ISBN: 978-3-948212-58-2
104 pages
16.5 x 23.5 cm

Euros 20,00

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