Phonurgia is a collection of soundworks and soundscapes. From the periphery of sonority, this exhibition is an open exploration of the correlation of acoustic form, material, and perception. A series of technical and experimental instruments of amplification will probe the contested realities of collective phonic experience. These tools of soundcraft aim to intrigue the ear, subverting conventional assumptions and expectations about silence and noise.

Sound design defies unequivocal categorization, oscillating between materiality and immateriality. These soundworks inhabit an uncertain territory between instrument, system, and artifact. Acoustics serves as the mediation of perception into consonant and dissonant experience. Sound is framed as a spatio-political condition; a potential amplification of both harmony and cacophony.

On the threshold where noise and silence become entangled and reciprocal, listening has always been active and sound has never been passive. The oversaturation and overstimulation of our shared sonic environment is systematic and strategic. Background noise is not neutral but a critically resonant medium for negotiating the ambiguities of utility and the imaginary. Sonority becomes a speculative field, and silence becomes a polysemic process.

Phonurgia features installations designed by Deniz Mahir Dagtekin and audioscapes by Jihae Kim. It is curated by Daniel Ayat and Rajan Mehta.