If Clocks Impose Order
«If clocks impose order, music defies it.»
This quote is from Xenia Benivolski and Rachael Rakes’ essay The RING: On Instrumental Time published on the Rewire website. The quote is part of the Norient Special Where Sound Becomes Witness, a publication in collaboration with Rewire Festival 2025. It assembles essays and audio pieces that explore how sound can cut through the noise to bear witness, inspire solidarity, and reimagine our shared reality. Curated and edited by Philipp Rhensius and Katía Truijen.
Biography
Xenia Benivolski is a writer, curator, and educator working with visual and sound art, material culture, and musicology, with a focus on musical instruments.
Biography
Rachael Rakes is a researcher, writer, curator, and educator. Recently, Rakes was the Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, THIS, TOO, IS A MAP; Curator of Public Practice at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht; and Head Curator and Programme at De Appel, Amsterdam.
Published on March 04, 2025
Last updated on March 12, 2025
Topic
How does this ideology, but also its sheer physical expressions such as labor affect cultural production? From hip hop’s «bling» culture to critical evaluations of cultural funding.