Following the Sun: Laura Llaneli. Murmuri mut

In Mute Murmur, Laura Llaneli places sound in a space of unexpected possibility. Through this minimal yet sustained action, she shifts listening towards the world of imagination and invites us to consider the extent to which a sound can exist without actually sounding. In a cultural context dominated by the visual, this imagined listening project seeks to reshape, albeit temporarily, the perceptual frenzy that characterises contemporary life.

This performance is the result of ongoing research into sound perception and transmission and takes the form of a score without sounds, open to each member of the audience’s individual and collective resonance. By evoking the sounds that frame the museum’s everyday institutional life, the sounds of the urban fabric and the sounds of the natural surroundings, it gives rise to frictions and expectations often lost in the background but which decisively shape our sensory experience.

In this way, the museum terrace becomes especially permeable to these tensions. Situated simultaneously both inside and outside the institution, in a seemingly sheltered place that is also exposed to the shifting sounds of the city that filter in, it is reconfigured as a privileged setting for attentive listening to the (mute) murmurs that often go unnoticed yet which softly and subtly shape our collective perception.

Activity held as part of the third edition of the “Following the Sun” series, entitled “Uncovering the Gaze”, curated by Carolina Ciuti.