Joseph Kohlmaier

Sam Belinfante

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Sam Belinfante (left) and Joseph Kohlmaier recording Heleen van Haegenborgh’s Affordances, Ghent, 2025.

Sam Belinfante and Joseph Kohlmaier have collaborated on numerous projects, events and publications since 2009. Sam is an artist living and working in London. Along with filmmaking and photographic work, his practice incorporates curating, sound and performance. Recent exhibitions include I See a Voice, The National Festival of Making (2023); This is a Voice at MAAS Sydney and Wellcome Collection, London (2016–17) and To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, Radar at Loughborough’s Carillion (2018). Recent performances include On Falling Short, ICA, London and Museum Tinguely, Basel (2024–25), The Long, very long Journey with Laure Prouvost at Kunshalle Wien, Vienna (2023) and Feedback at Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2017). In 2021 Belinfante presented On the Circulation of Blood, a major sculptural and performance commission for Creative Folkestone Triennial. In 2023 he was the inaugural Artist in Residence at Sir John Soane's Museum, London. For over fifteen years Belinfante has been teaching art at a variety of levels, including as Assistant Professor of Fine Art at University of Leeds (2021–22). He is the director of Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation (2016–) and a founding member of Musarc (2008–).

Last updated March 2026. Photo: Yiannis Katsaris

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Teaching Programmes and Workshops

  • Field Studies 2017: Listening After Pauline Oliveros, University of Leeds, 12–15 October 2017. With Sam Belinfante and Ed McKeon.

Lectures and Talks

  • Acoustics of Resistance / The End of World Service, University of Leeds, Arts and Humanities Research Institute, 4 May 2022, 6–8pm. With Sam Belinfante (curator and organiser) and Mikhail Karikis (speaker).
  • L’oreille sauvage d’après Truffaut, Site Gallery, Sheffield, 25 May 2017. With Sam Belinfante (curator). Performance lecture (screening).

Publications as Editor or Publisher

  • Sam Belinfante (ed.), On the Circulation of Blood (London, Cours de Poétique, 2022)
  • Sam Belinfante and Joseph Kohlmaier (eds.), The Listening Reader (London, Cours de Poétique, 2016)

Projects with Musarc

  • Nervous Systems. Musarc at ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, 14 April 2024. With Sam Belinfante and Jennifer Walshe.
  • We Are Participating. Musarc Winter Konsert 2023, The Wash Houses, London Metropolitan University, 16 December 2023. With Sam Belinfante, Jennifer Walshe, Elisabeth Schimana, Hester Dart, Sylvia Lim, Laure Prouvost, Ben Smith, and David Young.
  • The Orrery. Musarc at LCMF, LCMF London Contemporary Music Festival, 7 December 2019. With Sam Belinfante, Fritz Hauser, Lina Lapelytė, and Jennifer Walshe.
  • Do Disturb. Musarc at Palais de Tokyo, 21–23 April 2017. With Sam Belinfante, Ben Hadley, Neil Luck, Sarah Kate Wilson, and TONGUE.
  • Musarc at Wysing Polyphonic, Wysing Polyphonic, 2 June 2016. With Sam Belinfante, Elaine Mitchener, and Lin Chiwei.
  • Corpus Sonus at London Open: Live, Whitechapel Gallery, 20 July 2015. With Sam Belinfante.
  • Musarc Christmas Concert, St Bartholomew the Great, 14 December 2012. With Sam Belinfante, Toby O’Connor, and Esther Waterfield.
  • Agency Gallery and MK Gallery present: Antistrophe, V22 and MK Gallery, 9 June 2012. With Sam Belinfante and Simon Wright.
  • Corpus Sonus, Turner Contemporary, 20 April 2012. With Sam Belinfante.
  • Musarc Christmas Concert, St Bartholomew the Great, 10 December 2010. With Kite and Laslett and Sam Belinfante.
  • Musarc presents: Chambers, School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University, 26 March 2010. With Sam Belinfante and Audialsense.
  • Juxtaposition, Wilton’s Music Hall, 10 June 2009. With Sam Belinfante, Mary Dullea, Allon Kaye, and Kallabris.
  • Musarc and Entr’acte present: Chambers, School of Art, Architecture and Design, 23–27 March 2009. With Sam Belinfante, Marc Behrens, Allon Kaye, and Esther Venrooij.