Open sonic session
Listening practices: What/whom/how do you listen to?

PE 26.10.2018, klo 17
KLO 17:00 Villa Salin

"...what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect. (...) But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”

[Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action in Sister Outsider, 1984.]
 
Listening practices: What/whom/how do you listen to? is a public gathering part of the retreat Politics Of Listening | Practicing Transmission, Resonances and Echoes, which focuses on enabling shared spaces and situations to practices of conscious listening.
 
For this open session we propose to exercise listening through the space, audibility, aurality of women in sound by acknowledging the works, activism and efforts done by Audre Lorde, and engage with what she refers to as "the transformation of silence into language and action".

The evening begins with a sonic session facilitated by Kamila Metwaly, musician and curator based in Berlin. To be followed by a collective conversation that departs from the question(s) What/whom/how do you listen to? and will intertwine the voices and practices of: Maryan Abdulkarim, writer and activist based in Helsinki; Elena Agudio, curator and writer based in Berlin; Federica Bueti, art critic and editor based in Berlin; Giovanna Esposito Yussif, curator and writer based in Helsinki;Övül Durmuşoğlu, curator and writer based between Berlin and Graz; Karina Griffith, filmmaker based in Berlin; Lynhan Balatbat Helbock, curator and researcher based in Berlin; Isabel Hölzl, director Goethe-Institut Finnland based in Helsinki; Aino Korvensyrjä, researcher and activist for mobility rights based Helsinki and Berlin; Kelly Krugman, arts project coordinator in Berlin; Sonya Lindfors, choreographer based in Helsinki; Ajak Majok, dancer based in Helsinki; Begard Reza anti-racist feminist filmmaker based Oslo; and Airi Triisberg, art worker and curator based in Tallinn.
 
Politics Of Listening is organized and curated by Maryan Abdulkarim, Elena Agudio, Federica Bueti, Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Kamila Metwaly, and Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro; developed in cooperation and with the support of  Goethe-Institut Finnland; and kindly hosted by Naisasialiitto Unioni.