Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, March 11 from 6pm for the twenty-ninth edition of Playback with Victoria Keddie.
Victoria Keddie is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sound, video, installation, performance, and research. Her practice investigates the architectures of communication—acoustic, spatial, and technological—and explores how gesture, noise, and interference shape human experience. For over a decade, she co-directed E.S.P. TV, an international platform for hybrid media and broadcast-based performance. She currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, leading the course Listening Beyond Hearing alongside a spatial sound studio she designed for the program. She also directs the Spatial Sound Consortium in collaboration with Harvestworks, connecting studios internationally to develop new forms of access and collaboration.
Keddie has performed and exhibited internationally at venues including Fridman Gallery, Pioneer Works, and The Whitney Museum of American Art (US); The Barbican (UK); Museum Angewandte Kunst and Berghain Kantine (DE); The Goethe-Institut (CO); and MAPS (DK). Recent fellowships include NYSCA/NYFA for Music/Sound (2022), the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2023), and the Bemis Center Sound Art and Experimental Music Fellowship (2024). In 2025, she was Composer-in-Residence at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in Stockholm. Her sound works are represented by Autopilot Music Publishing (DE) and released through Raster Media (DE), Chaikin Records (US), and Fridman Gallery (NYC/US). Her video works are distributed via Lightcone (FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (US).
Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.
