Speak Again
December 13th, 2025 at LA Municipal Art Gallery
Composer-Performers: Chloe Maliav, James Hayden, Saunder Choi, Sharon Chohi Kim, Molly Pease, Fahad Siadat
Sculptures and Text: Elana Mann
Direction: Sharon Chohi Kim
Speak Again moves along the shifting edges of hearing, listening, and speaking, and how sound gathers in the body before it becomes language. Across the pieces, calls and gestures explore the ways we reach toward one another: how voices overlap, guide, interrupt, or steady us; how meaning forms, dissolves, or drifts; how listening can be an opening and a deepening. The works live in the thresholds where inner noise meets communal resonance and where ritual becomes a way of sensing. Throughout, the experience of those who are hard of hearing and the devices through which they hear offers a vital lens, reminding us that listening is never singular. It is tactile, relational, and shaped by the ways each body gathers and shapes sound. —Kim
This performance was a part of Too Fast To Sing curated by Hugo Cervantes.
Photos by Angel Origgi and Richard Thompson III