Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal – Volume 3, 2024

Edited by Alejandra Cárdenas

Contributions by Adrián Sallo Sallo, Alejandra Ríos Ruiz, BELLACOMSOM, Ekaterina Golovko, Karen Werner, Mariana Carvalho, Mariano Rosales, Nico Daleman, Nicole L’Huillier, Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado, Wilwer Vilca.

Conversations with Caline Matar and Yazan Khalili.

Artworks by Alan Courtis, Laura Mello, Pisitakun Kuantalaeng, Romi Ron Morrison, Yara Mekawei.

Published by Contingent Sounds, in November 2024

English

14,8 x 21 cm

187 pages (color)

ISBN 978-3-00-080749-7

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Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal Vol.3 explores sound and the socio-political dimensions of listening. The publication brings together essays, practices, conversations and artworks from artists, researchers, and activists who are actively engaged in practicing and thinking about sound and listening as an anti-hegemonic gesture. The themes that they dissect and historicize span diverse geographies and contexts, from environmental and military violence to communal agency, indigenous technologies, colonial archives, radio practices, cultural cannibalism, and more-than-human ontologies. Here, borders—both physical and metaphorical—are the sites where the authors position themselves and where knowledge is contested. At the core of these texts are questions of methodology and positionality, but also a concern for action and form—performing, dialoguing and instigating as ways of research.

Contents: 

Earshot: Earwitnessing and Sound as Self-Determination (a conversation with Caline Matar)

eating and digesting, me alimento de voces (Mariana Carvalho)

Yara Mekawei “Sea Sound”

Surlógicas (Nicole L’Huillier)

A Thin Language Full of Echoes (Alejandra Ríos Ruiz)

Romi Ron Morrison “Sedimentary Exits: Field Notes for Public Longing”

Reconsidering Tapes (Mariano Rosales, Adrián Sallo Sallo, Wilwer Vilca)

Radio Alhara and the Question of Funding: Infrastructure as an Art Practice, and Listening Through Communal Media (a conversation with Yazan Khalili)

Antena-Oca (Hollow Antenna), How Does the Cooperation Between Beings Sound?  (Bellacomsom)

Pisitakun Kuantalaeng “The Three Sound of Revolution”

Listening to Images in the Archive: Echoes of the Left-Out Sounds (Ekaterina Golovko)

Laura Mello “Esboço para reunião digital – Cena X”

Tropicanibalism: Kitsch, Camp and Decolonization (Nico Daleman)

Alan Courtis “Scores”

Re-co(r)ding the Tying of a Knot (Of Knots) (Paola Torres Nuñez Del Prado)

Who Are You Skottegatenfm? (Karen Werner)

Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal Vol.3 explores sound and the socio-political dimensions of listening. The publication brings together essays, practices, conversations and artworks from artists, researchers, and activists who are actively engaged in practicing and thinking about sound and listening as an anti-hegemonic gesture. The themes that they dissect and historicize span diverse geographies and contexts, from environmental and military violence to communal agency, indigenous technologies, colonial archives, radio practices, cultural cannibalism, and more-than-human ontologies. Here, borders—both physical and metaphorical—are the sites where the authors position themselves and where knowledge is contested. At the core of these texts are questions of methodology and positionality, but also a concern for action and form—performing, dialoguing and instigating as ways of research.