What is the power of listening in the era of the Capitalocene?
Not the power of sound, of sonic design or of radio art, but of their active reception – in an era when living environments are being destroyed by an economic and ideological regime that prevails within the human species. What can listening teach us, then, and how does it empower us with new agencies?
This presentation is an effort to define an ethic and a practice of listening. This ethic and this practice are profoundly bound together, and they consider listening as a tool for creation and emancipation – certainly not the only one, nor the best, but one tool among others available to hearing people. A tool to build a radical sonic ecology, that is to say a feminist, decolonial, anti-ableist and non-anthropocentric ecology.
Gardener, independent researcher, author and sound artist Juliette Volcler is interested in critical listening. She works on the history of sound creation, the social and political uses of sound, and the ways these two fields intermingle. Working alone or collaboratively, she produces radio plays, writings and performances at the crossroads of art and science.
The presentation will be held in English.