Speak Again
December 2025 at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Performers-Composers of HEX — Chloe Maliav, Saunder Choi, Fahad Siadat, James Hayden, Molly Pease, Sharon Chohi Kim
Sculptures: Elana Mann
Direction: Sharon Chohi Kim
This program 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.
