Tidspunkt: torsdag d. 24. november, 14:00 – 17:00
Sted: Multisalen, 21.0.54, Karen Blixens vej 1, 2300 Copenhagen S
During her first visit to Copenhagen, Taiwanese sound artist Hong-Kai Wang will conduct a workshop in which participants are asked to listen and speak, musically. For several years, Wang has been preoccupied with the critical potential of sound, in particular the politics of listening. She is now furthering her research into that of speech: how do we establish shared spaces of both listening and speaking and might there be a transformative capacity within listening and speaking as possible musical acts? Wang is especially interested in John Cage’s perception of music, which he has described as “…simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living”.
On November 24, Wang and LARM Research Archive invite cultural workers, artists, researchers and students to participate in a workshop of attentive listening and speaking. Set in a country with the statistically highest GDP per capita in 2011, the workshop engages with the topic of human agency in precarious economic times. Wang asks, “Is it conceivable that maybe some day people will have renounced money with pleasure? Is this a foolish, over-simplistic proposal to fight our seemingly permanent monetary limbo that has simply become a way of life? What are our desires for power, manifested by money in everyday life, and how do we learn to clarify, if we really want what we think we want?” During the discussion-based workshop, the participants will explore how to better listen and speak, and how this might constitute a collective political effort. The workshop will be recorded and eventually translated and edited into a speech-based radio opera entitled How to be economically powerful, musically? to be staged at TheCube Space, Taipei in November 2012. The workshop will be in English. Due to the limited space of the workshop, please sign up by writing to christiandresler [at] larm-archive.org. Hong-Kai Wang’s visit is supported by SNYKs Committee of International Travel Grants.
