stone witnessing – resonances in the swirls
a listening performance/essayistic dj-set
in the framework of
«rights of nature»
the sint lucas antwerpen research week
extra city kunsthal
antwerpen, 2022
slarg
Special Thanks to Marnie Slater, Petra Brabandt, Ursula Vogel
The performance was also shown at ZHdK, Zurich University of the arts in the framework of «Frühjahrsakademie: Sich verlandschaften – auf der Suche nach einer relationalen Praxis» in 2023
as well as at
Cabaret Voltaire Zürich in the framework of the publication release of insert #4 und #5 «dis/sense in der Anthropozänkritik» in February 2024.
«The shake that passes will echo.
The wave that recedes will come back.
The mountain that rumbles will roar.»
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
«In order to withstand the weather we have to become stone.»
― Audre Lorde via Sara Ahmed
A listening session about deep time and stone temporality, listening positionality, solidified queerness transforming on broken earth, stone butches, pillow rocks and rocky transitions, inhuman geography and racialized geology, animate inanimacy, colliding tectonic plates, crumbling plateausand non-extractivist frequencies of relationality.
With thoughts and uttered voices by Kathryn Yusoff, Sara Ahmed, N.K. Jemisin, Audre Lorde, Trinh T. Minh Ha, Mel Y. Chen, Nona Inescu, Sara Maitland, Toni Morrison, Eli Clare, Tracy September, Sally Schonfeldt, Lithic Alliance, Izidora l LETHE, Porcelain Records by Ursula Vogel, Lava from La Graciosa, Slate Stones from Safiental, et al.
Photos: Danial Shah, Daniel V. Keller, Aio Frei