Aura Satz
Aura Satz (1974, Barcelona) is a London-based artist based who works with film, sound, performance, and sculpture. Her works explore a distributed, expanded, and shared notion of voice and are made in conversation, using dialogue as both method and subject matter. Satz has performed, exhibited, and screened her work internationally, including at the Tate Modern; BFI Southbank; Hayward Gallery; Sydney Biennale; NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; High Line Art New York; Rotterdam Film Festival; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Sharjah Art Foundation; KADIST, San Francisco; Onassis Stegi; and Sonic Acts. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection, the Hayward Gallery project space, John Hansard Gallery, George Eastman Museum, Dallas Contemporary, ARTIUM Museoa, and Kunstnernes Hus, as well as special screening programmes at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, and more. Her films are distributed by LUX. (2025)
Film
- Preemptive Listening, dir. Aura Satz, 2024, 89 min. In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, ‘Preemptive Listening’ is an ode to the sirens that are and those that could be. Siren compositions from over 20 contemporary musicians form a resonant voice to ask; Does an alarm have to be alarming? Featuring original compositions by Laurie Spiegel, Evelyn Glennie, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Anton Lukoszevieze, BJ Nilsen, Ilpo Väisänen, Rhodri Davies, Mazen Kerbaj, FUJ||||||||||TA, Sarah Davachi, David Toop, Christina Kubisch, Moor Mother, Raven Chacon, Elaine Mitchener, Camille Norment, Horomona Horo, Debit, and Kode9. Film website. Interview (MoMA Magazine). [1]
Publications
- Preemptive Listening: The Sonic Politics of Emergency, eds. Aura Satz, Irene Revell, Francesca Laura Cavallo, Beatriz García-Velasco, Valentine Umansky, and Joel Stern, Disclaimer, 2025. Conversations, essays and performances extending from the film by Aura Satz. Symposium.
