Claude Cahun's Disavowals
by Jenniffer Shaw
Claude Cahun, explores in her book Avex Non-Avenus, surrealist autobiography, identity, gender, and the self. She researches texts and images that are not conventional narratives. She contrasts the nature of identity and representation and explores identity, art, dada, surrealism, and politics.
Jennifer Shaw makes some points about Claude Cahun's work:
Cahun's uses visual photography and text to explore the gender and the diversity of the self. Cahun's work is political. She critiques societal norms and expectations, particularly regarding gender roles and sexuality. Cahun's surrealist writings present the subconscious, with the complexities of human experience. Cahun's texts reflect intertextuality and other literary and artistic works, making a work that transcends time and context. In the readings, her images and text descriptions invite various interpretations. Her work on feminist theory and queer studies is important in today's cultural discourse.
Listening and Falling Silent: Towards Technics of Collectivity
By Jessica Feldman
The article is about the politics of listening practices and technologies that happened during the 2020 COVID-19 time and the resulting protests and police violence. During the Covid 19 two sound environments and temporalities took place. Isolation and confinement. As a result, people became frustrated, protested, and refused
isolated silence is much more dangerous politically than collective silence. Feldman uses Hannah Arendt’s work “Connecting Loneliness and Totalitarianism”, As a result, the corporate online communication tools did not have the democratic listening and empathy required to overcome this profound isolation.
When we do listen alone it forces us to rethink remote listening and communication technologies. As a form of protest, we need to coordinate collective action, resource distribution at a global scale, and geopolitics...
The Force of Listening
by Lucia Farinati and Claudia Firth is research on the political and philosophical act of listening about activism, resistance, art, and social culture.
The book proposes a way to listen not passively but as a transformative process that forms our perception of the world and each other. In the readings, they present three areas: Listening as political action, Dialogue and participation, and Philosophical underpinnings. They discuss how listening can serve as a way of fostering collective agency and resisting dominant narratives. dynamics of participatory art practices and how listening plays a crucial role in co-creation and collaboration. They incorporate insights of Paulo Freire and Jacques Rancière thoughts. They discuss theories of education, resistance, democracy, and emancipation.
Hearing Difference across Theaters: Experimental, Disability, and Deal Performance
by Kochhar Lindgren Kanta
The book expands on the hearing differences and accessibility in theatrical spaces, centering on how experimental performances can work with audiences with hearing disabilities. It discusses disability studies, performance art, and experimental theater. The research presents questions about how theater spaces and performances can be more inclusive of people with hearing differences. It covers how disability studies and deaf culture, in the context of performance arts. And how experimental theater and performances incorporate issues of hearing and difference.
"Autoarachnology" Introduction: threads and nodes of feeling, thought, and action.
by Julia Wilhelm
Tired of the same art education in a Dutch Art academy to learn how to produce art objects for an art market, Julia searched for something new. She worked with community involvement, political activism, and other art forms within her culture in Rotterdam.
“The concept of autoarachnology emerged as a tool for thinking and as a model for situating myself within all these entangled practices. “
Julia Wilhelm is a cultural worker and researcher based in Rotterdam, Holland. She works with climate justice, ecology, and alternative methods of knowledge. She founded the climate justice collective SPIN and "Cooking Something Up" She creates collaborative infrastructures and how to involve communities sustainably.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze
The book is about sound art, it covers theoretical, historical, and practical perspectives. Discovers how sound art intersects with art, technology, and culture.
The content is divided into chapters:
Historical Development of Sound Art: Discusses how sound art has evolved, pioneers, technological advances, and key movements.
Theoretical Approaches: Research on listening, sound, auditory culture, philosophical, aesthetic, and critical approaches within sound art.
Interdisciplinary practice and how sound art shapes contemporary art practices: A detailed description of how art crosses boundaries between technology, music, performance, and visual art.
Global Perspectives: The book presents international writers with different viewpoints and cultural contexts about sound art.