On Sonic Agency: A Workshop with Brandon LaBelle

Del 25 al 27 de noviembre de 2019
Book in a landscape
Picture by Laura Benítez Valero

The 3-day workshop aims to reflect upon acoustics as a framework that, by lending to the shaping of social and spatial environments, greatly impacts onto experiences of belonging and unbelonging. Extending from Jacques Rancière’s notion of “the distribution of the sensible,” we’ll consider how communities rework “the distribution of the heard” by intervening onto a dominant acoustic. This includes reflecting upon different forms of acoustic practices, from self-organized dance clubs to silent protests conducted against economic injustices to fostering affective economies of domestic life.

Acoustic practices provide a base for reorienting understandings of agency as a question of appearance, discourse and legibility; rather, we’ll explore how the capacity to shift volumes, to generate alternative rhythms, or to retune the tonalities of particular situations assists in nurturing the conditions that define the right to be seen and to be together. This includes rethinking “materialism” in favor of “energetics,” and how acoustics is not only about the production of a sound, but equally, the conditions by which movement, intimacy and negotiation may occur.

In this sense, the workshop will focus less on the making of sound and more on engaging with sonic agency as a creative method. This will lead to reflections on our experiences of hearing and being heard, attunement and detunement, synchronization and interruption, and in what way social relations can be recomposed.

There is no cost for the workshop. Subscription is required (limited number of places). It will be in English.

 

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist working with sound culture, voice, and questions of agency. He develops and presents artistic projects and performances within a range of international contexts, often working collaboratively and in public. Works include The Other Citizen: Archive, Club Transmediale, Berlin (2019), The Autonomous Odyssey (with Octavio Camargo), Kunsthall 3,14 Bergen (2018), The Ungovernable, Documenta 14, Athens (2017), Oficina de Autonomía, Ybakatu, Curitiba (2017), The Hobo Subject, Gallery Forum, Zagreb (2016), and The Living School, South London Gallery (2016).

He is the author of Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Goldsmiths Press, 2018), Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary (Bloomsbury, 2014), Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian (Errant Bodies, 2012), Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (2019; Continuum, 2010), and Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Bloomsbury, 2015; 2006). He lives in Berlin and is Professor at the Department of Contemporary Art, University of Bergen.

 

Coordinated by Marina Hervás.

This activity is part of the 26th Punto de Encuentro Festival arranged by AMEE in Medialab-Prado from 25 to 30 November, within the framework of the “Encuentros AVLab.”

Supported by Acción Cultural Española, PICE grants May 2019.

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Organizador Actividad:
AMEE
Price:
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Sessions of the activity

19:00 - 21:00
19:00 - 21:00
19:00 - 21:00
The activity is over
Tipo de actividad:
Taller de formación
Tags:
# encuentros_avlab # taller #amee #arte sonoro #política #sociología
Language:
English