I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be participating in the ListeningBiennial in South East Asia in July.

In contrast to forms of cognitive capitalism, Yves Citton argues for attentional ecologies that can support and enhance sensate sovereignty across society. While cognitive capitalism instrumentalizes and individualizes attention, attentional ecologies nurture critical and creative capacities and related interdependent bonds. Ecologies of attention are fundamental to acknowledging and supporting mutuality and reciprocity; they do much to keep open what counts within the arenas of the sensible, reminding how “attention is our purest form of generosity” (Weil). The second edition of The Listening Biennial is envisaged as an ecology of attention, one shaped by a critical concern for challenging existing constructs of exclusion and extraction, and that invites a shift from paying to giving attention. Such giving is emphasized as profoundly dynamic, that moves across a range of sites and scenes, and whose movements incite and seed forms of recognition and cooperation, collective joy and contestation. This includes what we may term poetic sensing, where methods of engagement are enhanced by the power of the imagination. Following such perspectives, The Listening Biennial opens onto questions of sensate sovereignty and attentional ecologies, as well as imaginary power and the acts of storying that follow, and how these contribute to communal flourishing.

My schedule for the Bieannial:

July 12: Listening Tambayan at Fine Arts Gallery, University of the Philippines [annotated playlist as a sonic journey through different conceptions of noise and aural impossibilities. Noise becomes audible at and as the limits of sonic perception, as a technological artifact, the sound of silence and the turmoil of riots. Displaced and uncanny noises mix with sounds that are in themselves impossibilities, or unsound as Steve Goodman called them – from white noise and electromagnetic waves to birdsong and bats.]

July 14-16: Sound Camp at Alitaptap artist village [a workshop on sonic ecologies and bioacoustics in the Anthropocene, contrasting the writings on the soundscape by R.M. Schafer and Bernie Krause with McKenzie Warks work on the Anthropopcene. Sonic mapping of the geophony, biophony and anthropophony of the area surrounding Alitaptap]

July 22: Listening Symposium at Silpakorn University Bangkok [talk on Noise as Sonic Experience]

July 29: Listening Symposium at Malaysia Multimedia University Kuala Lumpur [talk on Noise as Sonic Experience]