2019-03-18 - 10:00 AM / Arena Bar, Vienna, Austria
This edition of the Dirty Ear Forum aims to consider acoustics as a political question which impacts onto who or what is heard within given environments. Acoustics will be captured as a performative framework to collectively experiment with sonic materiality, voice and musical expression, and discourses around urban life and social struggles. In particular, the notion of a “liquid acoustics” will be mobilised. Liquid acoustics is understood to enable the circulation of the unheard or the bounded: A sonic liquidity that adapts to given conditions in order to cross borders, bypass obstacles, and leak into cracks and crevices. Liquid acoustics may flood the designated arenas of speech with an excess of meaning, laughter, sharing, or through a silence that resists the dictates of the properly spoken. Extending from Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of “liquid modernity”, the Forum will contend with the potentialities and problematics of our contemporary liquid state. This will take place through a series of mini-workshops and shared discussions with participants in collaboration with University of Applied Arts Vienna, as well as through the presentation of events under the heading “experimental research club” held at the Arena Bar. These sessions will adopt the situation of the Bar as a performative space for types of research action, including the staging of materials developed in the Forum, performative works by invited guests, and the crafting of an experimental sociality.
Dirty Ear Forum is an ongoing artistic platform initiated in 2013 by Brandon LaBelle. This edition is organized by Brandon LaBelle and Ricarda Denzer in collaboration with participating artists and researchers, including: Karen Werner, Fouad Asfour, Kristina Pia Hofer, Jelena Petrovic, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Nicole Sabella, aka Radio, Huda Takriti, Hector Schofield, co-founder of Angewandte Kunst Radio, and Anamarija Batista. Additional collaboration with Art and Communication Practices (KKP) University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Kunstradio. More on: http://dirtyearforum.net
Schedule:
March 18 - 20: workshop and shared discussions with guests and participants.
March 20: public talk and panel at Angewandte, 17:30 (Angewandte VAZ 7 Seminarraum 21, 4. Stock)
March 22 & 23: public events, The Arena Bar, 19:00 - 23:00 (Margaretenstraße 117, 1150 Wien) with performing guests