AMRO24: The sound of the conflict we can't hear by Elliot Perkins /Ultra-red

AMRO24: Dancing at the Crossroads, 8-11th May 2024

Workshop Presentation
Elliot Perkins (Ultra-red)_ What is the sound of the conflict we cannot hear?

Elliot Perkins, a member of the sound art collective Ultra-red invites festival's participants to consider the question What is the sound of the conflict we cannot hear? - an investigation that began with students of Space & Design Strategies at the Kunstuniversität, calling us to consider and deepen our analysis of hidden conflict, contested spaces and the problem of agreement and democratic consensus. Using experimental listening protocols proposed by Ultra-red as an approach to research and artistic practice, we will attempt to delve into the social, historical, and or political contexts embedded in the urban fabric and excavate muted antagonisms which can escape everyday perception.

We will interrogate how war and conflict and their normalisation structure life in the city in ways that require silent, intentional listening. Tracing our relationships to, and investments in places where struggle and conflict are manifest we will listen from and through these intentions. What do we hear? How do we hear in common?How to listen to what has been under-heard? Are antagonisms a problem or can we hear in them something which suggests a deeper pedagogy of listening, together, in difference, in solidarity, in curiosity?

*part of Insurgent Flows & Materiality of Clouds, a session dedicated to critical reflection about historical narratives, on the extractivism and colonialism of the cloud, as well as the possibile modes of reseeding resistance. Moderated by Adnan Hadzi.

More about the Festival and the AMRO24 Contributors: https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/
Past AMRO Editions: https://radical-openness.org/en