Listening with the Other
In the five works that constitute this block, some of them without any visual content, listening becomes the locus of an exercise. Through listening we explore the act of tuning into, adjust our mental focus, take time to sense what our environment consist of. Listening with the other is a proposal to examine how an other listens.
In the work of sound artist Angus Carlyle and Anthropologist Rupert Cox listening opens up layered forms of presence and the troubling memory of war. Multimedia artist Judith Westerveld explores sound as the active site in which identities are built in a colonial and post-colonial context. Sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda delves deeply into the vibratory nature of things, and sound collector and musician David Petráš reveals how environment and music entwine reality and local mythologies in histories of survival in the Carpathian mountains.
- 16 September
- 17:30
- Kijkhuis, Cinema 2
Exploring the memory of Okinawan islander Yogi-San and his experiences sheltering from the 1945 US Naval bombardment, the resonant space of the cave turns war memory into a way of listening.
Rather than documentary or naturalistic, sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda’s field recordings explores the relation between space and cognition, the depth of the landscape and the vital breathing of things.
Practices of witchcraft and healing rituals in folk songs and stories of survival from older women living in remote locations on the border zone of Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania become transition zones to a mythical, unknown world.
Through a multilingual response to a sound recording from a man called Mukalap, in the no longer living language !ora, colonial legacies echo through.
An audiovisual meditation of a language and culture from a colonial past, “moving through time, reflecting on the truth of the people forgotten”.
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