The ability to listen as a reflexive, political and performative tool will be the focus of the conference entitled "Gender Listening", which will feature Italian artist Anna Raimondo and Argentine flautist, anthropologist and teacher Victoria Polti, on Thursday, June 27 at 6 p.m. at the Borges Cultural Center.
In recent years, gender-genre activisms have been characterized not only by articulating aesthetic and political dimensions in their collective manifestations in public spaces, but also by repositioning the ability to listen as a reflexive, political and performative tool.
From a decolonial horizon, incarnated listening is posed as a challenge to logocentric, patriarchal and binary epistemology. In the face of a West that shouts, to recover listening as a reflexive capacity is to recognize bodily affectations, to assume its subjective character, to recognize trajectories, memories, identities, in intersubjective experiences and to dispute senses denaturalizing our environments.
"Through proposals such as performance research and analytical devices such as participant listening or hermeneutic listening we can update possible articulations between corporeality-materiality-sound through experiences of sono-artivism and analyze their performative effectiveness from more flexible, hybrid and transcultural forms of production", in the words of Victoria Polti.
Where does one position oneself in terms of geography, ideology, culture, at the moment of listening, and what roles do gender attributions play in this process of interpretation? Guided by these questions, sound artist Anna Raimondo (Italy) explores the relationship between listening and gender.
From a selection of artistic works and theoretical and militant texts coming from different geographical and aesthetic horizons, the artist proposes a moment of collective listening questioning the construction of gender binarism and its ideological use in the hegemonic formation of masculinity and femininity.
