Capture All is an international research and development program that has been developed by LA in partnership with Sarai-CSDS, Delhi since 2021. Comprised of artists, researchers, activists, and educators, the program explores how sound and listening practices may critically analyse, and break, the recursive colonial patterns in data-driven governance that haunt and impact contemporary life in setter- and post-colonial Australia and India.
How might we intervene in and resist perpetual patterns of capture that are increasingly abstracted, automated, and blackboxed beyond reach? Where and how do such practices relate to histories of migration in the Asia Pacific context? How is audibility understood, stretched, and counter-mobilised in relation to settler-colonial extractivism, technological control and capture, and ongoing modes of statist and corporate governance?
These questions will propel a Capture All residency in February, hosted by LA and convened by Laura McLean and Suvani Suri with cohort members Aasma Tulika, Joel Spring, Mehak Sawhney, Shareeka Helaluddin, Thomas Smith, and Uzma Falak.
During the residency, performances, lectures, and workshops by the Capture All cohort will be presented at ACCA as part of the Data Relations Summer School on Monday 20 February. This will include an evening performance open to the public.
Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies, and other Détournements
lecture and musical performance
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
5–8pm, 20 February
Suvani Suri w/ Aasma Tulika, Uzma Falak, Shareeka Helaluddin, Mehak Sawhney
A drift that begins with the attempts to tune into the inaudible recordings of the Linguistic Survey of India archives, producing short circuits in the process. The slow rummaging opens up ways of listening to co-relationalities, within the archival crackles, echoic memories, archaeological artefacts, earwitness testimonies, computational instructions, and cultural data sets moored in South Asian contexts.
Capture All: screen and sound
2–5pm, 25 February
Composite, Melbourne
Screening works by:
Tom Smith, Narrative 001: The Things We Like, 2022 (18 mins 45 secs)
Mochu - Cool Memories of Remote Gods, 2017 (14 mins 48 secs)
Aasma Tulika, Listening to Success Stories, 2022 (19 mins 23 secs)
Kush Badhwar, Blood Earth, 2013 (35 mins)
Joel Spring, Diggermode (23 mins)
Jazz Money, We have stories for all the dark spaces in between (7 mins 15 secs)
