Events / The Living School #1
2020-03-11 - / Multimedia Institute, Zagreb
As part of Communities in Movement, a research project in collaboration with Multimedia Institute.
March 11 – 13, 2020
Session #1: On Affect, Voice, Listening and Self-Organization
Ana Hofman
Andreja Kulunčić
Brandon LaBelle
Mojca Piškor
Multimedia Institute (Club MaMa)
Preradovićeva ul. 18
10000 Zagreb
The Living School is an independent meeting point taking place in different contexts and with diverse gatherings of partners. The School focuses on questions of recognition and misrecognition, belonging and unbelonging, and the ways in which expressions of community may be creatively and critically manifest. This includes reflecting broadly upon listening and language, voice and embodiment, art and activism.
The first session is framed around the topics of affect, voice, listening, and self-organization, and brings together presentations by artists, musicologists, singers and educators. Presentations and discussions over the first two days will create a collective framework for thinking together about the affective capacities found in voice, and the ways in which listening may act as a form of relational activism extending what or who counts. This will be further elaborated by inquiring into methods of self-organization and artistic practices aimed at social injustice. The session will conclude with an Open Day where we might engage further in questions of shared voice and processes of self-organized community..
The School is organized by the Multimedia Institute (Club MaMa) and Brandon LaBelle, an artist based in Berlin, as part of the artistic research project Social Acoustics / Communities in Movement. The School is open to everyone: no prior skills needed.
Schedule:
March 11, 19:00:
Presentation by Brandon LaBelle, “On Acoustic Justice” (Communities in Movement, Berlin / Art Academy, University of Bergen)
(reception following)
March 12, 13:30 - 18:00:
Andreja Kulunčić, “Ghettoized Communities”, (Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb)
Mojca Piškor, “Reading the Sound, Listening through Words: Resonances of Auditory Regimes of Yugoslav poena insularis” (Music Academy, University of Zagreb)
Ana Hofman, “Radical Amateurism: An Aural After-Life of a Mass Voice” (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Ljubljana)
March 13: Open Day: on voice, listening, self-organization and future plans.