Friday, April 19th / 20:00 Book presentation of the second volume of Party Studies - a series on party culture and experimental social life - with the editors Víctor Aguado, Ramón del Buey, Brandon LaBelle at the ESLA EKO, Calle del Ánade, 10 y...
talk by Brandon LaBelle, presented as part of The Pirate Academy, November 2023, at Kunsthall 3,14 Bergen. In approaching the concept of the self-built, I have been led into thinking around questions of self-organisation, DIY cultures, and what th...
Conceived by Brandon LaBelle with María Escobar, Fátima Cué Pérez, Catalina Mahecha, África Nieto, Paco Lidón, Oihana Altube, Raúl de Marcos, Octavio Camargo, Nico Dockx, Laure Severac, Katía Truijen, Sveinung Unneland, Eamon O'Kane, Catalin...
The Listening Biennial is taking place from July 6 - August 8, 2023, including exhibitions, performance events, workshops and seminars across a constellation of participating venues and institutions. As part of the Communities in Movement research pr...
Joy Forum is an independent exhibition space organized by students, artists and staff affiliated with the Faculty of Art, Music and Design (KMD) in Bergen. The screening room, which opened in March 2018, is located as a separate unit in the reception...
“I must interrupt to say that ‘X’ is what exists inside me. ‘X’ – I bathe in that this. It’s unpronounceable. All I do not know is in ‘X’.” – Clarice Lispector, Áqua Viva As we returned to presencial teaching in the fall of ...
We're thrilled to share the release of our new publication, as part of our research into Radical Sympathy. Questions of interdependency and care have gained broader urgency within today's planetary environment. From the pressing need to work at p...
Extending from our work on inoperative theater, we're holding a workshop in Curitiba, Brazil, in collaboration with Iliadahomero, a theatrical platform aimed at forms of dramatical poetics. Taking place at the city's Teatro Guaíra from May 16 - 24, ...
February 1, 2022 / Inoperative theatre is posed as a creative vocabulary, one that supports a mode of performativity with others. It follows various lines of thinking and making that aim for secrecy, evasion, joy, a weak form, conviviality. This migh...
[as part of Speculative Urban Futures working group] I want to speculate by way of the monster: the monster as the dialectical other, the rejected, the outcast, and which originates from within: the monster as an ambivalent figure, constituted by ...
We're glad to share the release of the first volume from our Party Studies project. The collective publication is devoted to the analysis of the party. From social get-together to scenes of delirium, the publication aims to unpack the party as a comp...
What leads us to listening? And how does listening lead us? Where does it take us, and what does it enable? It is our interest to stay close to listening, and to stay close to the ways in which listening brings one within a process of discovery, nego...
We invite you to a showing of results from our residency at Errant Sound. Join us anytime on Sunday, June 6, between 16:00 – 19:00. We will have the doors open and are glad to welcome you. We will also gather outside, talk about our activitie...
July 19 – 23, 2021 Berlin / London The Listening Academy is an independent research academy focusing on listening as a philosophical, artistic, social and somatic issue. This entails a relation to sonic, performative and ecological practices, so...
One of the main questions or lines of inquiry within the communities in movement project is to think communities less as enclaves of identity and more as conduits to cooperation; community as what enables the articulation of shared concerns while als...
In the publication, Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis (Oxford: 2016), the editors argue for greater appreciation of art as a form of social and civic engagement. This includes a consideration of the rights and ...
In what ways is aloneness figured in relation to questions of community? Are there particular forms of solitude to be found or nurtured within scenes of radical togetherness? How might one navigate between being-alone and loneliness? To individuate o...
Working towards the exhibition to take place at Savvy Contemporary Berlin in November. My proposed work revolves around the question of listening as a transformative act, and what I’m tending to think of as a mutational experience: how listening mo...
The downhill path: notes on poetic subjectivity (collected by way of conversations with friends during self-isolation: speculations on cultural dynamics: dramaturgy for a cultural non-act) [An empty stage. There is no light or dimension, only a di...
With Arkadi Zaides, Alex Reynolds, Brandon LaBelle Social acoustics / sonic practices, questions of listening, sound as materiality – as relational matter: enabling forms of orientation, an-orientation; “communities in movement” as topic or...
Communities in Movement is an artistic research project organized and led by artist and writer Brandon LaBelle in collaboration with participating artists, researchers, centers and institutions. The project takes its name from urban theorist and acti...