In collaboration
with the department of Art and Communication Practices (KKP), University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Wednesday
20. 3. 2019 Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, A-1030 Vienna, SR 21 4th floor
17:30 - 18:15 Brandon LaBelle
presenting the book Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance. Published in 2018 by Goldsmiths Press.
18:30
- 20.30 Panel Talk on questions of sound, listening and voice.
On the podium: Karen Werner,
sociolgist, soundartist, radio maker, Fouad Asfour, linguist, writer, researcher, Anamarija Batista, curator, art historian,
Brandon LaBelle, artist, writer and theorist, professor for media art Bergen, Kristina Pia Hofer, researcher, lecturer, performer
and musician, aka Radio - angewandte kunst audio (Huda Takriti & Hector Schofield). Moderation: Ricarda Denzer, artist
and Senior Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Friday 22. 3. & Saturday 23. 3. 2019
19:00 - 23:00 at the Arena Bar, Margaretenstraße 117, 1150 Vienna
“Acoustic Club Workshop”
, performances with invited guests.
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 Ricarda Denzer and Brandon LaBelle in collaboration with participating artists and researchers,
including: Karen Werner, Fouad Asfour, Kristina Pia Hofer, aka - angewandte kunst audio, Anamarija Batista and Jelena Petrovic.
Additional collaboration with Art and Communication Practices (KKP) University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Kunstradio. More
on:
http://dirtyearforum.net 
