Fireside Chat: Listening Otherwise
Amidst the constant noise that surrounds us, some artists tune into the silence and the uncertain as ways of opening up different modes of storytelling and experience. Corinne de San Jose and Bagus Pandega are artists whose practices are deeply attuned to sound and its technologies, as well as how acts of listening can be activated and translated through installations and exhibitions. This session invites the two artists to have an open exchange, reflecting on their respective relationships to sound, how it shapes their processes, informs their engagement with history and the present, and how they use sound and creates space for alternative ways of sensing and understanding the world.
Corinne de San Jose | Artist, sound designer
Corinne de San Jose is an interdisciplinary artist and film sound designer based in Manila, Philippines. Her practice spans photography-based processes such as printmaking and video, as well as installation, kinetic sculpture, and sound-generating works. Often employing found objects and outmoded forms of communication, she juxtaposes them with current or imagined technologies to construct systems that explore how sound, material, and meaning circulate through space.
De San Jose maintains a parallel career as an established sound designer in the Philippines. In 2024, she was awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and a six-month New York Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council. She has presented her work in exhibitions in Manila, New York, Berlin, and beyond. She is currently represented by Silverlens Galleries.
Bagus Pandega | Artist
Bagus Pandega’s (b. 1985, Jakarta) practice involves a sustained disruption of mechanical and industrial systems, opening new perspectives on the relationship between technology, ecology, and human existence. His work interrogates Indonesia’s extractive histories, from the sixteenth-century spice trade through palm oil proliferation to contemporary global demand for nickel powering batteries in phones and electric vehicles.
Embracing a do-it-yourself, hacker sensibility, Pandega constructs multisensory installations from everyday technologies, natural materials including plants and rare earth minerals, and musical instruments. Programmed to initiate mechanical and chemical reactions, these responsive works generate sound, movement, and light in dialogue with their environment, attuned to human presence.