Attuning to the fragile present

Presentations and sharing with Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Milla Tiainen and Sini Mononen, Riikka Juntunen, Meri Kytö, Anouk Mirte Hoogendoorn and Ben Muñoz, Camille Auer, Kati Roover, Taru Elfving, Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Carmelo Pampillonio, Yvonne Billimore and Katarina Blomqvist. Convened by Anastasia (A) Khodyreva and Brandon LaBelle.

Following these and all the rhyming or sibling lines of questioning, The Listening Academy aims at fostering transdisciplinary discussions on the topic of listening which can contribute to understandings and acts of meaningful noticing, recognition, repair and restoration. This includes nurturing new imaginaries and knowledges around what it means to hear and be heard, to voice and respond, within today’s planetary environment. This edition of the Academy strives to bring together an international group of scholars, artists and practitioners whose creative and critical work is supportive for elaborating what an art or science of listening toward a more liveable world may be. Through individual presentations, discussions and performative works, we’ll engage listening as the basis for storying diverse narratives, as well as enabling thinking alongside and with the complexities of global experience.

Abstract for Katarina Blomqvist's lecture performance Attuning to the fragile present: "In my lecture performance I will share an introduction to my doctoral research as a whole and then concentrate on those aspects in it which have a special relation of attuning to the fragile present. My research context is documentary encounter with older adults in longterm care. Most of the residents are affected by cognitive impairment. How to interview a person with dementia? What does my attempt reveal about the convention of interviewing? It is said that we are living in an interview society but do we also live in an listening society? I will also address shared attention, testimonies and temporality by shared auditory experience of documentary piece."


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