Special Event

2 April 2023, 3:30 – 5:30 pm

Listening Session with James Webb: Sound doesn’t sit still

Costs: museum admission, no booking required, in Englisch
Meeting point: Museum Tinguely, info desk 


Meet the South African artist James Webb (born 1975 in Kimberly/South Africa, lives and works in Stockholm/Sweden and Cape Town/South Africa) in person and learn exciting details about his installation There's No Place Called Home (Solitude Park), 2023, in the park in front of the museum during a listening session. Afterwards, in a "Listening Session" in the museum, Webb will present to the audience sound recordings from all over the world that he works with as an artist, some of which are normally not even perceptible to our human ear: Sounds from inside the body to spherical sounds from outer space.


À bruit secret. Hearing in Art
22 February - 14 May 2023

À bruit secret. Hearing in Art

What does the River Rhine in Basel actually sound like? Can voices or the din of the city be used as visual or sculptural material? How have jungle noises changed over the past few years? Can sound waves be registered other than through the ears? Museum Tinguely’s series on the human senses in art continues with an array of auditory encounters with the known and unknown soundscapes of this earth. The group exhibition will showcase works in various media from the Baroque period to the present.


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