Anjalika Sagar und Kodwo Eshun von The Otolith Group im Gespräch mit Richard Couzins

The Otolith Group was founded by artists and theorists Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002. The anatomical entity of the otolith operates as a kind of figurative black box for withholding intention and calculating discrepancy. Articulating the idea of the Otolith with the idea of the Group alludes to the histories of collective practices invented by artists that theorise and theorists that practice art within and beyond the Dis-United Kingdom. The post-cinematic practice of Eshun and Sagar is informed by an aesthetics of the essayistic that takes the form of a science fiction of the present in which moving images, sonic speculations, performances, publications and installations explore the intertemporal crises and interscalar catastrophes that construct the Racial Capitalocene. Their latest film What the Owl Knows will be presented for the very first time at Secession.

Richard Couzins is a researcher, writer and practising artist, making and exhibiting work both as a solo artist and collaboratively. His research interests include moving image, the human voice in artistic practice, song, photography in contemporary art and the relationship between the avant-garde, early cinema and music hall. His recent book, Voice as Art: From Theatre to Forensics (2022) is published by Routledge.

An event by the Friends of the Secession
(in English)