Masha Tupitsyn
Love Sounds
A sound poem and history, this work dematerializes cinema’s visual legacy and reconstitutes it as an all-tonal history of critical listening.
2014
digital video, sound
4:07:27 hours
About
Cinema remains the last medium for speaking and performing love culturally. While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music, very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon since the tradition and practice of amour courtois. Partly inspired by Christian Marclay’s ontology of time in cinema, The Clock, and René Magritte’s word paintings, which textualized the visual tropes of painting with “written” images, Love Sounds, a sound poem and history, dematerializes cinema’s visual legacy and reconstitutes it as an all-tonal history of critical listening.
Masha Tupitsyn, 2014
Presented as part of: Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media Art, which toured Australia in 2014–2016.
The Artist
Masha Tupitsyn
Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, multi-media artist, and cultural critic based in New York.