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, A4 Arts 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. Her 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,Nazan Maksudyan, Julio Velasco, Louis Petitjean, Sarah Kiani (eds.):
Sound as Affect, Media, Data. Auditory Sensorialities, Sonic Materialities, Aural
Epistemologies. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2026.
Essay
‘Adjusting our ears’, (National Museum of Oslo, 2026)
Essay‘Audible Traces of the Sonic Undercommons’, Center for Art, Research, and Alliances, 2025
Liner notes‘Critical Restoration: Temporary Stored 2.0’, KMRU, Temporary Stored 2.0
OFNOT, 2024
EssaySome notes on thresholds and infrastructures of listening, REC-ON.org
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)
Essay‘Desert 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