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Le Lire (Part II) - Voices in my Head: Call and re-Call - Anna Iatsenko

Le Commun

Le Lire
Resonant Reading
Anna Iatsenko


We will continue our adventures through the soundscapes of African American litterature by like ok'ing at sermons and speeches, before returning to Toni Morrison's Beloved for one last de-memory.

This project is conceived as a performative diptych, a dialogue, constructed around research into sound materiality in literature and reading. Anna, Martin, and Samir will take the listeners through a selection of literary works that carry musical, vocal and more generally, sonic elements, which allow glimpses into experience of an embodied kind.

This resonance in two parts between fictional and poetic readings, makes emerge a language which shows us different ways of relating to the world. It also shows us how literature is, primarily, synesthetic and how it plays on different senses both materially, figuratively, and in relation to the process of reading. Simply expressions such as “seeing with the mind’s eye”, when referring to reading mechanisms, underline the transformation of printed text into “images”.

This conversation will provide an overview of mechanisms by which literature engages us experientially. The purpose of musical accompaniment is to triangulate cultural musical production with literatures of Toni Morrison and a selection of writes from the Caribbean, as well as theorists and other artists. When texts engage us experientially - whether through the flow of waters surrounding small islands, through the rhythmical heartbeat of the prose, through carefully constructed acoustics – they transmit knowledge about different ways of thinking about being in the world.

This linguistic, poetic, acoustic – literary – technology will be at the heart of the conversation, pointing to the complexities of reading practices, their immense creative potential, immersive abilities, and the pleasure of reading for heartbeat and flow.

Renaissance - exposition d'abstractions algorithmiques
Installations, performances, conférences, du 2 au 25 juin 2022, Le Commun Genève


Renaissance est une exposition d’installations audio-visuelles réalisées en collaboration par le duo de plasticiens numériques du Robert Turner Collective et le duo de musique électroacoustique jazz INFLUUT. Les œuvres d’abstraction algorithmique proposent une immersion synesthésique, in­vitant à l’introspection et la méditation.

Chaque jour présente un événement pour lequel les artistes, scientifiques ou collectifs invités proposent une intervention qui résonne avec les thématiques de l’exposition. Des performances, des conférences, des installations, et un festival de nuits sonorisées rythment l’ensemble de Renaissance.

De nature transdisciplinaire, cette exposition a pour vocation d’apporter une sorte de démystification sur la notion générale de l’algorithme. Elle traite de manière parfois didactique, parfois ludique, parfois organique, des thèmes peut-être encore difficiles d’accès avec une attitude positi­ve et inclusive.

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