Jamming with The Listening Biennial
Jamming with The Listening Biennial – Toward an Infralistening approach
November 8th, 13:00 - 16:00
Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, London
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Join us for an afternoon of explorative listening research and sharing led by scholars, organizers and artists Brandon LaBelle, Arman Nouri and Mhamad Safa.
The event integrates the launch of The Listening Biennial Reader, vol. 2, published by Errant Bodies Press. Editor and contributing authors Brandon LaBelle and Mhamad Safa will introduce the publication, and The Listening Biennial project, sharing insights into their individual research and inviting collective discussion on listening cultures and related notions of Infralistening. They will be joined by Arman Nouri who will contribute a short workshop, activating questions on surveillance and attention through creative writing and electro-magnetic listening.
Following an edition of The Listening Academy, the second volume of The Listening Biennial Reader brings together contributions from researchers, artists, educators and organizers involved in a range of pertinent initiatives and practices. Framing the publication is the concept of Infralistening which is put forward as a creative, critical methodology. Infralistening is figured as a way of listening-into particular issues, histories, and urgent realities; it is a listening that comes up from below, that shadows certain territories, that wraps itself around sites and struggles, giving momentum to action and intervention. As the essays, interviews, projects and proposals presented in the Reader demonstrate, listening not only enables ways of building community, it moreover aids in fostering practices concerned with reworking dominant knowledge regimes: to foster transdisciplinary meeting points, holistic understandings, and forms of activism by way of an acoustic approach. This allows for critical arguments, engaged work, and poetic research in support of an affirmative politics.
The Listening Biennial Reader, vol. 2
Edited by Rebecca Collins and Brandon LaBelle
Including contributions from Miguel Buenrostro, Wanda Canton, Rebecca Collins, Henry Ivry, Nanna Hauge Kristensen, Brandon LaBelle, Margarida Mendes, Sara Mikolai, Mhamad Safa, Luísa Santos, James Webb
This event forms part of Mosaic Room's programme 'sounding towards--' a five-month project transforming the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality.