Voicing Places – Sonic Incarnations of Situated Knowledge

Voicing Places is a platform for artistic research amplifying embodied, community-based reflections on listening and aural practices. We operate in the space where critical sound studies, sonic journalism, soundmaking, and soundwalking echo and resonate with each other. Our starting point is the fundamental instability of practice. Sensing is inherently messy; being in a body and relating to a site is an unstable process. We believe our sonic practices must address this directly, embracing the muddy, shifting ground on which we stand. We propose investigating sites in ways that intentionally straddle the discursive and the sensory from start to end. This involves enacting sound art practices while inhabiting our bodies as we walk, voice and listen, exploring the production of sites and subjects. Our approach is phenomenological, akin to sensory ethnography, attuned to how the political affects of today leak into our ways of being. We connect to the different, often conflicting, aspects of a place – its historical layers, social dynamics, political contours, and the tensions between the imaginary and the real. Voicing Places is curated by Messy Sensing and kindly supported by BMWKMS, Land Steiermark and Stadt Graz. Messy Sensing – an artistic duo between Anna Jurkiewicz and Reza Kellner. It emerged in 2023 from fascination with multilayer sensory imaginaries connected to specific places. It works with photography and sound (through the body called Reza Kellner), voice, video, and writing (through the body called Anna Jurkiewicz). It wants to honour all kinds of bodies, surrounded and absorbed by messy feasting and messy growing. Perpetual sensory exchanges and negotiations between crowds of not closely related – in the genetic sense of the word – but not unrelated bodies, affected by each other. ROUGH TIMETABLE 18.00 Lecture-Performance #1: Adina Camhy 18.45 Lecture-Performance #2: Anna Jurkiewicz 19.15 Music Act #1: fabien artal 19.30 break 19.45 Lecture-Per