Event
Echo Travels: Re-Circulating Historical Voice Recordings That Speak of Colonial History
About
What to expect
Anette Hoffmann gives a lecture on the Echo Travels project and historical voice recordings that speak of colonial history.
Echo Travels is an art project by Anette Hoffmann and Rosemary Lombard.
- Re-introduces speakers recorded in colonial knowledge projects
- Uses sound pieces, portraits and re-translations
- Mobile sounding posters with side texts
- Focus on young women in Namibia, 1954
- New poster features Adelheid Mbwaondjou and Renathe Tjikundi-Merero
- Discusses sound archives and archival access today
- Second lecture in New Directions in Sonic History
- Holden Sage Carroll moderates the Q&A
- More speakers to be announced shortly
Questions
When does Echo Travels: Re-Circulating Historical Voice Recordings That Speak of Colonial History start and end?
Echo Travels: Re-Circulating Historical Voice Recordings That Speak of Colonial History runs Thursday, 10 December 2026, 20:00.
Where is Echo Travels: Re-Circulating Historical Voice Recordings That Speak of Colonial History?
Echo Travels: Re-Circulating Historical Voice Recordings That Speak of Colonial History takes place at SPUI25, Spui 25-27, Amsterdam.
How do I book?
Use the SPUI25 reservation page:
What is Echo Travels?
Echo Travels is an art project by Anette Hoffmann and Rosemary Lombard.
It re-introduces speakers whose voices were recorded in colonial knowledge projects.
It re-assembles archival traces, re-activates portraits and re-translates spoken words.
It places archival recordings in conversation with translators’ voices.
It helps people listen in public spaces.
It attends to historical context.
It creates mobile, lightly travelling sounding posters with side texts.
What does Anette Hoffmann discuss?
She focuses on young women who gave a history lecture to a German linguist in Namibia in 1954.
She presents the newest poster with Namibian singer Adelheid Mbwaondjou and her interlocutor Renathe Tjikundi-Merero.
The lecture discusses sound archives and the politics of access to sound collections today.
Is it part of a series?
Yes. It is the second lecture in the annual New Directions in Sonic History series.
The series invites a leading researcher each year to speak on the study of sound and silence.
It is part of Sound Affairs: Sonic Histories of Foreign Relations, 1700-1990.
Read more at sound-affairs.com
Amsterdam
Getting there
SPUI25, Spui 25-27, 1012 WX Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
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