Symposium exhibition
Des-habitar Escutas (Dis-inhabit Listening) is a research and artistic creation project carried out between 2023 and 2024 by Brazilian artists and researchers Lílian Campesato and Valéria Bonafé in the region known as Cracolândia (Crackland), in downtown São Paulo. The project resulted in a series of sound, audiovisual, and installation works. Over the course of two years, they engaged with Cracolândia, a territory in constant conflict, marked by profound social, economic, and political contrasts, as well as by ongoing police violence and state neglect. The project offers a critical reflection on this urban reality and charts an artistic path for imagining new ways of listening to the relationships and conflicts between people, places, and contexts. This trajectory seeks to disrupt habitual modes of listening that often disregard non-dominant ways of existence. To “dis-inhabit” listening requires an intentional openness to what lies outside oneself and to others. It implies a process of displacement—one that does not occur without effort. Such a de-habitualized form of listening can foster dynamic exchanges between bodies, experiences, and emotions. In the frame of the symposium exhibition three selected works from the whole project will be presented: “Sweet Craco”, “Listening with Cracolândia”, and “Phantasmagoric Spectacle”.
Developed by artists and researchers Lílian Campesato and Valéria Bonafé, Microfonias: Invention and Sharing of Listening is a practice-based research project that integrates artistic creation with critical inquiry. Through relational practices, we explore and reflect on the ethical, poetic, and political dimensions inherent in listening. From the outset, our work has been grounded in non-conventional methodologies, including recorded conversations, audio testimonies, artistic correspondences, affective reports from listening, and experiments with alternative writing formats, among others. Our most recent research, Dis-inhabit Listenings: Listening in Dispute in Cracolândia, engages a series of participatory artistic actions to foster critical reflection on an urban reality marked by profound social, economic, and political inequalities. The project also envisions new modes of listening to the complex relationships, conflicts, and interactions among people, places, and contexts.
Webpage: microfonias.net
Lílian Campesato is a Brazilian artist and researcher whose practice combines reflective inquiry and inventive actions with sound, listening, and performance. Her works focus on listening as a space of conflict where voice and noise are central aspects. Campesato is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, conducting a research-creation project on inaudible aspects of listening.
Instagram: @lilicampesato
Website: liliancampesato.net
Valéria Bonafé is a Brazilian artist, researcher, educator, and curator. Her practice integrates creative, investigative, and pedagogical processes centered on sound and listening, unfolding in an interdisciplinary field that spans music, sound arts, sound studies, and artistic research, approached from decolonial and feminist perspectives. Bonafé is currently assistant professor at the University of São Paulo.
Instagram: @valeriabonafe_
Website: valeriabonafe.com
Symposium exhibition: October 2. until 17. / Flutgraben – Projektraum
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Photo: Microfonias, Listening with Cracolândia ©