Kunsthalle Wien presents the first institutional solo exhibition by Tiffany Sia (born 1988, Hong Kong) in Austria. At the centre of Overt Listening is a new film about the Kinmen Islands off the coast of Taiwan – a place where the geopolitical tensions of the Chinese Civil War and the Cold War are still felt today. As a spatially expansive installation on the ground floor of Kunsthalle Wien in the Museumsquartier, the exhibition brings together a series of newly conceived works that explore how political conflicts inscribe themselves into landscapes, infrastructures, media and communication systems, and how they shape our perception of history and the present.
Overt Listening moves between military bunkers, museum display and deserted coastlines, interweaving landscapes with the sounds of radio broadcasts and military exercises.