Ricarda Denzer – ganz ohr / all ears

Ricarda Denzer (artist, Vienna) presents an audiovisual essay about her new book Ricarda Denzer – ganz ohr / all ear. Here, the practice of listening undergoes its own distinctive process of settling upon a certain form.

 

Christian Höller (author and co-editor, Vienna), gives the short lecture “Para-Listening as World Exploration.”

 

Karen Werner (sound artist, Bergen) presents her “re – radio, a narrowcast,” which, like radio, is “constituted through a powerful relationship between electricity and magnetism, as well as between senders and receivers.” Shawn Wilson says “relationships do not merely shape reality, they are reality.” In the spirit of speaking nearby invoked in Ricarda Denzer’s ganz ohr / all ears, “re – radio, a narrowcast” will engage with “relationality through sound, word, radio and spaces between us” (Werner).

 

Followed by a conversation between editors Ricarda Denzer and Christian Höller, artist Karen Werner, and graphic designer Hannah Sakai with curator Christiane Erharter.

 

 

Perceived as continual processes, hearing and listening represent physical, performative acts or creative participation in the world that fosters critical and care-driven agency, while seeking to enable alternative narrative modes. A process in which “something that is not simply already in existence—whether separate or merged—enters into relationship, becomes relationship.” Para-Listening, as one might call this reciprocal process between hearing and who or what is heard, therefore asserts a constitutive element of tension, a “being-with,” encompassing myriad cross-references and defying any presumed subject–object difference.

 

With contributions from the co-editor and author Christian Höller, the writer and researcher Fouad Asfour, the curator Christiane Erharter, the artist Ricarda Denzer in a conversation with Fouad Asfour, Christina Goestl, Seth Weiner, Karen Werner und Hui Ye, the artist, writer, and theorist Brandon LaBelle, the artist Jaimini Patel, the editor and curator Christa Benzer, and the graphic designer Hannah Sakai.