The otolith’s location in the inner ear may suggest an emphasis on critical listening (especially given how central music is to several of the duo’s works), but the organ’s primary significance is its function with respect to detecting and adapting to gravity and acceleration: In the age of algorithmic surveillance—or, in Mark Fisher’s words, “communicative capitalist sorcery”—the Otolith Group’s works attempt to take stock of different gravitational pulls from an embodied point of view.
Art forum picked The Otolith Group’s film ‘Medium Earth’ (2013) shown at GALLERY AT REDCAT as the ‘Critic’s pick’.
