“Katharina Bévand’s body of
work—and I use the word body deliberately to
invoke its material taking (up) space—shows
us that sound depends on space, 
is nothing without space.
 
Yet space is not simply a medium in
which sound is propagated. Sound makes space.
It carves out new spaces shaped and delimited
by the scope of its dispersal and resonance.

Sound, suggests philosopher Jean-Luc
Nancy, is always a matter of a relation with the
other and he takes resonance as the figure for
a community that would not be defined by any
condition of belonging, only the reverberation
and echoing of one with another, even if that
mean vibrating with the other who is in me.

But sound, moreover, makes space in its very reso-
nating. It cannot take place without displacing
and thus replacing. Sounds makes space for
itself—and for the other—precisely in the exten-
sion, the taking space, of its resonance.”