Performative Talk
What past listening experiences have shaped how we hear the present? Are there stories that echo across the generations, acting to carry cultural heritage and feelings of home? And how can we listen out for the futures we long for, bringing creative and critical attention to shaping change? Following these lines of inquiry, this creative presentation approaches our bodies as acoustic
environments, where memory and history continuously resound. These are dynamic, complex soundings that carry in the silences and noises shaping the present. Giving attention to this inner acoustic, we’ll consider the importance as well as challenges of an inner listening, as what performs to ground us in relation to place and people. Returning to ourselves, as Patty Krawec poignantly suggests, forms the basis for fostering planetary futures.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer, theorist, and artistic director of The Listening Biennial. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives, including Communities in Movement (2019-23), Oficina de Autonomia (2017-), The Living School (2014-16), The Imaginary Republic (2014-19), Dirty Ear Forum (2013-22), Surface Tension (2003-2008), and Beyond Music Sound Festival (1998-2002). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: Poetics of Listening (2025), Dreamtime X (2022), Acoustic Justice (2021), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian (2012), Acoustic Territories (2010), and Background Noise (2006).
Webpage: www.brandonlabelle.net
Instagram: @b_llabelle
Performative Talk: Brandon LaBelle, October 4. 2 pm / Flutgraben
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Photo: Brandon LaBelle, courtesy of the artist ©