Vestibular Criticism: A Podcast

This presentation explores podcasting as an emerging form of critical engagement with contemporary art, particularly within the context of decolonial art criticism. Drawing on Kamayani Sharma’s own podcasting practice, which centres on interviews and conversations as methods of knowledge production, she investigates the dynamic relationship between writing and aurality. During her residency at Villa Sträuli, her research was inspired—both conceptually and bodily—by the vestibular system, the part of the inner ear responsible for hearing, orientation, and balance. This metaphor grounds an inquiry into how we navigate art, life, and history through an interplay of the visual, aural, and textual. The project examines the transcript as a form where sound becomes text, the poetic as a form where text returns to sound, and the voice as a carrier across these transformations.

This podcast presentation invites us to consider art criticism not only through the eye and the page, but as something that rolls off the tongue, swirls into the ears, and resonates through language.

The recording of the conversation between Kamayani Sharma and Geraldine Tedder will be edited and made public here public after the production.