In Praise of Noise

A lecture-performance on the generative and radical potential of noise with Kameelah Janan Rasheed.

In Praise of Noise is an emergent lecture-performance exploring the generative and radical potential of noise. As we listen for what exceeds the signal — what escapes intelligibility and standard perception — we look to instances presumed to be failures: latency, misalignment, and ectopia. In this turn toward error as method, noise becomes an invitation to other ways of knowing. Resisting the temptation to worship at the altar of coherence and immediacy, we consider strategies of being out of sync, non-compliant, and excessive. These modes of being are not episodic spectacles of refusal; rather, they are disorienting conditions sustained not through cohesion, but through dispersal.