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Mediterranean (post)colonialisms

Διεθνές Θερινό Εργαστήριο Θεωρίας και Ήχου "Mediterranean (post)colonialisms"
28/08/2023 - 30/08/2023
Μονή Πάου

Διεθνές Θερινό Εργαστήριο Θεωρίας και Ήχου, που οργανώνεται από το Μεταπτυχιακό Πρόγραμμα «Σπουδές κινητικότητας» στο Τμήμα Ιστορίας, Αρχαιολογίας και Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας και το τμήμα Πολιτισμού και Δημιουργικών Μέσων και Βιομηχανιών του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας.

Το εργαστήριο θα γίνει στα αγγλικά.

theoretical ↔ artistic workshop

Co-organized by the “Mobility Studies” postgraduate programme (department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology) and the department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly.

The International Sound and Theory Workshop is a combined theoretical/artistic workshop exploring and potentially questioning and unsettling the modern “theory/practice” conceptual divide, while creating a participatory, cross-disciplinary platform of scholarly/artistic exchanges and convergences.

The theory workshop is organized in three sessions creating and probing shared knowledge environments among all participants for co-crafting ideas, questions and concepts in alignment with the artistic workshop.

The artistic workshop is designed as a cross-artistic regime of knowing with audiovisual media. It aims at motivating the production of a project in dialogue with the theoretical workshop, inviting at the same time the making, re-distribution, creative un-doing, or recharging of theoretical knowledge across the artistic process.

Guest speakers:

Martha Feldman (Univ. Of Chicago)
Martin Stokes (King’s College, London)
Peter McMurray (Univ. Of Cambridge)

The workshop seeks to rethink the “Mediterranean” as a relational and elusive musical place emerging through its multiple, unfinished trajectories and temporalities, as well as a multivalent discursive/sonic field for a radical critique of modernity activating contingencies for unlearning history. Drawing upon paradigms from the Mediterranean “East”, it is motivated by the reconsideration of the Mediterranean less in terms of a fixed, spatial category and more as a musical idea: to re-imagine and listen to the Mediterranean as an unruly, incomplete archive of sounds and as a “boundless sea” of genres and voices to be performed, of sonic odysseys to be (re-)mapped, of connectivities and disconnections to be (re-)appraised. Inevitably, such sensibilities of the “Mediterranean” urge for alternative, situated performativities of its knowledge subverting imperial epistemological and cultural logics casting their shadows over the present. This postcolonial adventure of knowledge is interested in probing wider and comparative vistas questioning normative imaginaries and critically re-scaling audibilities of the Mediterranean, its ruins, noises, rhythms and silences. It presupposes the retraining of our historiographic/artistic/ethnographic ear and a way of listening to the (Eastern) “Mediterranean” floating laboratory of history also as a challenge for a postcolonial epistemological re-positioning: of reflexively making sense of the ways our scholarly selves are variously entangled within the coloniality of knowledge and its imperialist orthodoxies and agendas. Such a postcolonial listening to the ceaselessly becoming world of the Mediterranean archive can set the stage for re-routing our auditory imagination contingently texturing and expanding our intelligibilities of the political, while taking the responsibility for what remains unheard and what it means to know it.

Artistic workshop:

Curating the Mediterranean Sonic Archive

Eligible applicants are doctoral/postdoctoral students and researchers active in the fields of arts, humanities and social sciences.

Applications deadline:

June 28, 2023.