Clara Garavelli in conversation with Nicky Hirst, Andrew Cross, Peter Fraser, Tim Ellis, Judy Milner, Jeff Knopf, Steve Chapman and Patricia Bossio 

This roundtable aims to provide a platform for thoughts about silence and the differentiated affective soundscape generated by loss. Moderated by Dr Garavelli, a number of artists whose work is being exhibited as part of MUTE will reflect on their own practices as vehicles of self-reflection and interconnection, whilst expanding on ideas of the material perception of silence as a form of intersubjective listening. 

The Ambassador of the Argentine Republic, Javier Figueroa, will introduce our round table discussion about the legacy of Graciela Sacco.

This roundtable discussion will explore Graciela Sacco’s life and artistic practice, particularly considering her aims to provoke an “interference” in everyday life and to question the power of the human condition.

Speakers: Prof. Vikki Bell (Goldsmith, University of London), Alessio Antoniolli (Gasworks & Triangle Network), Dr. Clara Garavelli (University of Leicester) and Patricia Bossio (Ubicua).

Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, is the author of four monographs, including Culture and Performance (Bloomsbury, 2007). Widely published in peer-reviewed journals, she has addressed questions of ethics, aesthetics, subjectivity and politics across the social sciences and theoretical humanities.

Alessio Antoniolli is the Director of Gasworks, London, where he leads a programme of exhibitions, international residencies and participatory events. He is also the Director of Triangle Network, a world-wide network of visual art organisations that work together to create artists’ exchanges and to share knowledge with each other. In 2022, he was also appointed curator at Fondazione Memmo, Italy. He has lectured widely and has been part of many juries including the UK’s Turner Prize in 2019.