Structural Listening; Surplus Vocalities : a workshop with James Hazel

Brought to you by the SSAF

WHEN: Tuesday 23 September, 1-3PM
WHERE: Meet at the Arts Lab, Level 1, Arts and Cultural Building, Monash Road, Building 159 (MAP), next to the George Paton Gallery. 
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How can we better understand experiences of precarity and social class within late-stage capitalist institutions?

Facilitated by artist and sociologist James Hazel, this workshop will focus on creating a series of ‘structural listening’ scores aimed at exploring the social practices, experiences, and embodiments rendered invisible by neoliberal governmentality and administrative logics. Through the lens of song, music, sound, and the sonic arts — and drawing on Brandon LaBelle’s idea of poor acoustics — we will explore what it means to attune to the barely audible and pre(care)ious thresholds of under/heard socioeconomic experience.

By engaging with auditory knowledge(s), we ask how listening might open up new ways of understanding and attending to soft-lives lived in precarity.