Brandon LaBelle ^(US)

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist living in Berlin. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives, including The Listening Biennial and related Listening Academy. In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought.

His publications include: Dreamtime X (2022), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Acoustic Territories (2010, 2019), and Background Noise (2006, 2015). His latest book on sound culture, Acoustic Justice (2021), argues for an acoustic model by which to engage questions of social equality.