Fallon Mayanja, Poetics of Otherness
collective writing workshop
15 September 2024, 4 pm – 7.30 pm, auditorium
#Sonata #Supplement
By exploring sound objects and their possibilities, Fallon Mayanja offers work at the crossroads of questions of race, class and sexuality. How to construct narratives from the lived experiences of the margins? What impact do these collective writing processes induce on a daily basis on the modalities of representation/expression of identity(ies)? How can we highlight the emancipatory imaginations that shape different worlds? Through these questions she attempt to outline other modes of listening, archiving and relationing.
FALLON MAYANJA is a composer, artist and performer. Building listening environments is the primary gesture that defines Fallon’s practice and research. With a broad understanding of listening that encompasses the porosity of touch, the tangibility of sound and intangibility of sight, Fallon mobilizes different relationships with our environment and social, inter-relational, and self-reflexive ideas. From narratives that navigates through Chaos, the artist constructs poetical landscapes and support systems of queer – black diasporic experience. Disrupting conventional approaches within immersive sonic explorations, and manifesting the relationship between fictional existences and cultural experiences, the listening zone temporarily deviates from common sense by carving out a sound space as a “committed act of relationship, of interaction, within its ecosystem”. Reconfiguring the hierarchies of meaning and feeling, the work opens and announces a collective space of affection, f(r)iction and perception.
Free admission untill capacity is reached
Via Nizza 138
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