CAN THE MUTED SPEAK? Kathy-Ann Tan on Satch Hoyt at MARKK, Hamburg
The importance of sonic registers in restitution processes is emphasized in a roundtable with Memory Biwa, Bénédicte Savoy, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, and Irene V. Small that forms part of our current issue. Like Biwa, Satch Hoyt explores the potentials of sound in a decolonial artistic approach and combines cultural-historical research with musical practice. Hoyt’s ongoing project Afro-Sonic Mapping is based on the reactivation of colonial sound archives. In its most recent iteration, he has now revived historical instruments in a performance at Hamburg’s MARKK, where he is showing a series of new works. Kathy-Ann Tan looks at the intervention – also against the backdrop of an ongoing tendency of western cultural institutions to invite artists to conduct critical inquiry into their collections of looted artefacts.
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