Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts

Announcement of Open Call Selected Artists

We are delighted to announce that Nina Thomas and Fern Thomas have been selected to undertake the artist commissions for Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts. Both artists will be developing new work on tinnitus for an exhibition in October 2021, hosted in partnership with OVADA, Oxford. Nina Thomas (https://www.ninathomas.org/) a visual artist, using the mediums… Continue reading Announcement of Open Call Selected Artists

STUDYING MUSIC WITH TINNITUS

In July 2020 I [Marie] took up a post the Open University as a Lecturer in Popular Music. Re-joining a music department has provided a useful opportunity to reflect on the relationship between tinnitus and the study of music. Thinking with and through tinnitus can provide an important reminder of what tends to be passed… Continue reading STUDYING MUSIC WITH TINNITUS

TINNITUS AND DISABILITY STUDIES

Disability studies is an important field of academic and activist work that has had a profound effect on how impairment, illness, debilitation and bodily difference are defined, conceptualised and understood. Since its emergence as a coherent discourse in the 1950s, disability studies has sought to challenge, critique and reconfigure medical approaches to disability and its… Continue reading TINNITUS AND DISABILITY STUDIES

NOTES ON TINNITUS IN PEDRO ALMODÓVAR’S PAIN AND GLORY (2019)

In the first few minutes of Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria, 2019), the film’s protagonist Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) lists for the audience the various diseases, ailments and diagnoses that he has come to find himself blighted with. A film about reconnecting with the past, Pain and Glory tells, via various recollections, the life story of a… Continue reading NOTES ON TINNITUS IN PEDRO ALMODÓVAR’S PAIN AND GLORY (2019)

What is Auditory Knowledge?

Skip to content