Academy – Skopje

March 13 - 16, 2025:

This edition of The Listening Academy brings attention to questions of disability, inviting reflection and shared discussion on issues of accessibility and rethinking dominant sensorial and bodily paradigms. Informed by crip theory and embodied knowledge practices, we’re interested to listen across abilities, opening up possibilities for supporting diversity and new ways of reorienting the normative ear.

The Academy will consist of a lecture event held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, considering questions of aural diversity and acoustic performativity, and a seminar-lab at Cultural Centar Jadro on embodied forms of listening in and across the city. We’re interested in holding a space for social encounter so as to enliven a broader listening culture and public understanding, which includes concern for (self-)care, interdependence, intimacy, and social justice.

Guiding these investigations is the notion of Crip Listening, which is put forward as an area of creative inquiry. Informed by broader discussions on neurodiversity, ableism, somatic care and crip theory, as well as divergent modes of survival in today’s debilitating environments, we look forward to exploring together the potentiality of a diversely attuned listening.

With Sofia Grigoriadou, Verica Kovacevska, Brandon LaBelle, Maja Zeco, Bojana Janeva, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Julija Petrovska, Ivana Mirchevska, Zorica Zafirovska, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Nicole Sabella, Miriam Foy, Ema Ananievska, Toma Dimovski, Kai Gladkova, Ivana Samandova, Panayotis Panopoulos, Ridjet Ferati and Nikola Uzunovski.

In partnership with:
Cultural Centar Jadro, Skopje
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

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