Exhibition
24 Hours with Tony Cokes
Amos Rex Helsinki
12 September 2025
Exhibition
Frequencies
MOCA Tucson
14 Feburary - 29 June 2025
Programme
Sounding a Black Grammar
Performa New York
23 November 2023
Exhibition Notes from Below
ACUD Galerie, Berlin
11 May-10 June 2023
Radio Mix dark waters, spectral waves.INVERNOMUTO Guest Mix, Movement Radio Athens.Aired November 2023
Sound Essay Imagine you’re in a museum. What do you hear?, ’Tracing fractures. Across Listening, Movement, Restitution, and Repair’, 12 September 2020, Vieille Charité Marseille, Manifesta 13
Exhibition
‘32: The Rescore, Sharjah Art Foundation
28 September 2019 – 10 January 2020
Exhibition
Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1, A4Arts Foundation, Cape Town
7 June- 15 August 2019
VR Exhibition
Prospekt: A VR Essay by Geraldine Juarez. Feat. Josefina Bjork. Botaniska Göteborg
13-14 September 2018
Exhibition
For the Record, ifa Galerie Berlin, Germany
2 June - 30 September 2018
Programme
writing for the eye, writing for the ear, Season 3, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, 11-14 April 2018
Exhibition
Buried in the Mix, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, 23 September 2017 - 15 January 2018
Vinyl Record
what is left of what has left, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. May 8 – 29 2016
Curator and Writer
Johannesburg
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Bhavisha Panchia is a curator and writer of contemporary art. Her curatorial and written work centres on the social, cultural and ideological signification of sound and music in contemporary culture.With an interest in auditory media’s relationship to geopolitical paradigms, anti/postcolonial discourses and imperial histories, she considers how we can critically listen back to listen forward. She is the founder of Nothing to Commit Records, a label and publishing platform committed to the production and expansion of knowledge related to contemporary art and sound within and across the global South.
Essay
(co-authored)Radio as Curriculum: Broadcasting Counter-hegemonic Knowledge in Radio Appartement 22 and The Pan African Space Space Station(forthcoming)
Essay
Adjusting our ears’, (National Museum of Oslo, 2026) (forthcoming)
EssayAudible Traces of the Sonic Undercommons’, Center for Art, Research, and Alliances, 2025
Liner notesCritical Restoration: Temporary Stored 2.0’, KMRU, Temporary Stored 2.0
OFNOT, 2024
Encyclopedia
entry
Fatimah Tuggar, ‘Women Artists in New Media Art from the 1960s to the 1990s’. AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions, 2024
Liner Notes
‘Passages and pauses’, in Passages– a song: Abrie Fourie and Akinbode Akinbiyi (Berlin: Archive Books, 2023)
Response‘Listening through Others’, Norient. 27 June 2023.
Liner Notes
‘Listening with the Third Ear’, KMRU, Stupor (Helsinki: Other Power Records, 2023)
EssayDesert Dictionary: in search of a new vocabulary,(Berlin: Boris Baltschun, 2023)
Essay
‘PS: Let me say what you do not’, Dave McKenzie: Letters and Banners (Helsinki: Rooftop Press, 2023)
Essay‘Phonopoetica’, in Katalin Ladik: O-oooooooopus (Milan: Skira, 2023)
Essay ‘Imagine you’re in a museum. What do you hear?’ in Sound, Colonialism, Power, MAST Journal, November 2021, pp.63-70
Essay ‘Playing it Back: Critical Reflections on Curating Sound’ in Prof Dr Andi Schoon and Prof Dr Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt(eds.) Repercussions: Auditory Culture between Signification and the New Ontology (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2022), pp.59-75
Essay‘Limits in Listening,’ Sonic Continuum, The Contemporary Journal, June 2020
Review
‘Abri de Swardt’s Ridder Thirst LP project’, Africanah.org, 8 May 2020
Essay ‘What is it to listen?’ (Cape Town: A4 Arts Foundation, 2020)
Essay ‘To Make Light of a Dark World: Resilience and Resistance in South African Art,’ in Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Dee Marco and Abebe Zegeye (eds.) (Still Here): Studies of Culture in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years Since 1994. (New Jersey: Africa World Press, Inc. & The Red Sea Press, 2020),pp.123-33
Interview Bhavisha Panchia & Leyya Mona Tawil, ‘Noise and Nation’, International Curators Forum, July 2020
Essay‘NON’, Adjective, Spring Issue 2018, pp 68-69