listening event curation, graphic design poster, riso printing
the poly listening club
An public event series organized by Barbara Preisig and friends for the Institute for Contemporary Art, Department Fine Art, Zurich University of the Arts
As part of the series «the poly listening club», curated by barbara preisig, aio frei was invited to curate an evening around questions concerning modes of non-extractivist listening as well as designing the poster for the event series.
More infos about the poly listening club here
non-extractivist listening – four offerings
cannach macbride, am kanngieser, hong-kai wang, aio frei
04.06.2024, 7pm | ZHdK | Room 5.K04
Are there generous, permeable, decelerated listening attentions that can soften or attack the categorization and difference perpetuated by capitalist, colonial, white-supremacist, hetero-patriarchal, ableist relations? Listening positionalities and perceptions are informed by identities, experiences, beliefs, and their intersections. Non-extractivist listening asks us to notice our noticing and work from there. As AM Kanngieser writes: «Listening attention might mean to embrace the impossibility of receiving truth» and therefore embrace listening as «being present with whatever comes.» Cannach MacBride, Hong-Kai Wang, AM Kanngieser and Aio Frei invite you to attune to a shared, attentive listening session involving four offerings and a preparatory exercise.
Hong-Kai Wang
Hong-Kai Wang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Taipei, Taiwan and holds a PhD in Practice degree from Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She works across exhibition making, performance, publication, and workshop that involve collective, pedagogical, and embodied practices of sociality.Wang research-based practice is informed by the unceasing tension between languages, ideologies, identities, and knowledge regimes. By attending to and contending with the questions of auditory perception and the politics of knowing, Wang’s work seeks to reveal different modes of attention, further conceiving of emergent time-spaces that critically interweave histories of labor, economies of co-habitation, formations of knowledge, and production of desire.
www.w-h-k.net/
AM Kanngieser
is a geographer, sound artist and Research Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. Their practice engages listening and attunement to approach how people collectively determine conditions of liberation and care in the face of ecocide and environmental change. Kanngieser is a co-founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures and works in collaboration with Oceania-based anti-colonial storytellers, artists and grassroots organisers. They are the author ofExperimental Politics and the Making of Worlds (2013) and Between Sound and Silence: Listening towards Environmental Relations (forthcoming), and have written for a range of interdisciplinary journals. Their audio work has been commissioned by Documenta 14 Radio, BBC, ABC Radio National, The Natural History Museum London, and Deutschland Radio, amongst many others, and has been reviewed in publications including The Wire, Quietus, Transmediale, Outline and Art Quarterly.
amkanngieser.com
Cannach MacBride
is a white Scottish artist, writer, and editor. They are currently doing their PhD at Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice, UAL. Their research project is about listening, based in plural modes of attention and awareness that touch sonic and more than sonic experiences. Listening is understood as a research methodology and a creative practice for noticing the complexity of relational dependencies, and honouring them with due care and responsibility. With curator Taraneh Fazeli, they are co-editing a book called Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying on expanded understandings of accessibility in the arts. Recent writing appears in The Climate Justice Code (Casco Art Institute, 2023) and is forthcoming in As for Protocols (Vera List Center for Art and Politics/Amherst Press, 2024). They teach writing and research methodologies on the MA Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.