Love Sounds

Cinema remains the last medium for speaking and performing love culturally. While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon since the tradition and practice of amour courtois. Partly inspired by Christian Marclay's ontology of time in cinema, The Clock, and René Magritte's word paintings, which textualized the visual tropes of painting with "written" images, Love Sounds, a 24-hour sound poem and montage, dematerializes cinema's visual legacy and reconstitutes it as an all-tonal history of critical listening. Love Sounds, an audio history of love in cinema, concludes Tupitsyn's immaterial trilogy, and will be presented as a 24-hour sound installation, accompanied by a catalogue published in a limited edition by Penny-Ante featuring written works by Masha Tupitsyn and contributors McKenzie Wark, Berit Fischer, Isiah Medina, C. Spencer Yeh, and Yaniya Lee. In 2011, Masha Tupitsyn commenced her immaterial series with LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film, the first book of film criticism written entirely on Twitter. LACONIA experimented with new modes of writing and criticism, updating traditional literary forms and practices like the aphorism and the fragment. Re-imagining the wound-and-quest story, the love narrative, and the female subject in love in the digital age, Love Dog, published in 2013, was the second installment in Masha Tupitsyn's trilogy of immaterial writing. Written as a multi-media blog and inspired by Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse and Mourning Diary-a couple in Tupitsyn's mind-Love Dog is an art book that is part love manifesto, part philosophical notebook, part digital liturgy.