Session Three:
James Goodwin and Nisha Ramayya
[Poetry and poetics workshop]
Features some pre-sessional reading (recommended not mandatory)
03 February 2023 | 12-1pm GMT (online)
Reservation: email helenfrosi@mac.com
Biog:
James Goodwin is a poet currently researching for his thesis on the blacksociopoetics of marronage, breath, sacrality and emanation. His pamphlet, aspects caught in the headspace we’re in: composition for friends, was published by Face Press; and his debut book, Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of The Slip, was published by the87press in 2021. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.
Auraldiversites III:
Space . Place . Confluence . Entanglement
Overview:
An interdisciplinary programme addressing the ‘auraldiverse turn’ in Arts and Humanities research and theory, questioning how and what we hear, what we listen to and why, as situated within our contemporary milieu and its associated crises.
These multimodal sessions trouble accepted norms in audio technology, sound culture and Western epistemologies and question the extent of human perception, our relation in and through the vibratory world, and whether hearing is ever an individual act.
Featuring: talks and discussions, Q&As, masterclasses, hands-on workshops, field-work, communal listenings, slow readings and a multi-speaker concert.
Entanglement
Sessions one - three:
"By troubling assumptions around a distinct locus for hearing, and the notion of a presumed "singular" or discrete listener, we come to discern a colonisation of the senses, and prickle at arbitrary classifications that categorise and define into a certitute of disconnection. Working outside the assumption of hearing as "individualised" in the sense of separation, and instead vibrating towards the perceived individual’s hearing as necessarily co-constituted and sympoietic, we sit with the notion of hearing and listening as always with…"