Cashmere Specials Queer Sonic Fingerprint w/ Isabel Bredenbröker and Adam Pultz 03.05.2025

The six-channel sound installation Queer Sonic Fingerprint, created by sound artist Adam Pultz and anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker was recently produced in and shown at Art Laboratory Berlin. Queer Sonic Fingerprint speculatively imagines non-normative relations around cultural belongings in ethnological museums and beyond. The installation amplifies the collection‘s materiality through the impulse response recordings—or, more poetically, sonic fingerprints—of ethnographic objects. In the installation, the fingerprints are subjected to a genetic algorithm that continually produces new generations of fingerprints carrying the acoustic properties of their ancestors. Isabel and Adam describe the creation of the installation, discuss how sound may elucidate non-normative...

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