Academic panel at the Norient Festival 2023 in collaboration with GSAH/ICS and THoR (Taking the Humanities on the Road)
curated and moderated by Carla J. Maier
with Zeynep Bulut and Gilles Aubry

Part of the Norient Festival 2023 and supported by the ldeas-and-Actions-Lab THoR (Taking the Humanities on the Road), this academic bubble explores how artists and performers have used listening and voicing to create sonic and multi-sensorial connections between human and non-human beings, and how this can enhance awareness of ecological and social injustice.  The focus of the conversation is Atlantic Ragagar (2022), an experimental film by Gilles Aubry which was shot on the Moroccan Atlantic coast and produced in collaboration with biologist Younes Boundir and performer lmane Zoubai. The film is a collective attempt to «listen» to pollution and extractivism in the region. lt will be screened after a talk by Zeynep Bulut, lecturer in music at Queen ‘s University Belfast. Bulut will bring her work on voice, embodiment, skin, and more-than-human entanglements into resonance with the audio-visual narrative of the film.  In a joint discussion with Zeynep Bulut, Gilles Aubry, and the audience, we will tackle questions of  sonic agency, ecological justice, and the role of the arts in noticing multspecies ecologies and in imagining alternative planetary futures. More information: https://norient-festival.com/Fr-Fri-13-Jan-2023-15-30

Partners:
Norient Festival 2023 Bern, January 11-15, 2023
THoR (taking the Humanities on the Road)