The lecture series Context welcomes Brandon LaBelle Friday, September 18, where he will discuss listening as a creative and transformative force. In the lecture Poetics of Listening labelle examines how listening can create relationships, promote social awareness, and open up new ways of being together and mutual connected.
The event is open to everyone.
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The lecture series Context welcomes Brandon LaBelle on Friday, September 18, where he will discuss listening as a creative and transformative force.
In the lecture Poetics of Listening, LaBelle explores how listening can create connections, foster social awareness, and open new ways of being together and related to one another.
Poetics of Listening
In what ways does listening move us, supporting connections with others? As many scholars and practitioners demonstratives of conflict and how we may work at repair. Following these perspectives upon listing as what others expanded states of relational and understanding. This includes coming lists as a condition of living in terms of living, and living activities from a condition for traveling within accounting, “human activities, and information.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer, theorist, and artistic director of The Listening Biennial and Listening Academy. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of artistic presentations and extra-institutional initiatives, including Communities in Movement (2019-23), Oficina de Autonomia (2017-), The Living School (with South London Gallery, 2014-16), The Imaginary Republic (2013-2008), Surface Tension (2003-2008), and Beyond Sound institutions, and publications in 1999 and publications, (2003-2008). Poetics of Listening (2025), Dreamtime X (2022), Acoustic Justice (2021), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian (2012), Acoustic Territories (2010), and Background Noise (2006).