Dirty Ear Forum – ninth edition

Fouad Asfour
Ricarda Denzer
Kristina Pia Hofer
Brandon LaBelle
Karen Werner
Jelena Petrović
aka Radio
Huda Takriti
Hector Schofield
Anamarija Batista
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara / Nicole Sabella

March 18 - 23, 2019
Venue: Arena Bar, Vienna

This edition of the Dirty Ear Forum aims to consider acoustics as a political question which impacts onto who or what is heard within given environments. Acoustics will be captured as a performative framework to collectively experiment with sonic materiality, voice and musical expression, and discourses around urban life and social struggles. In particular, the notion of a “liquid acoustics” will be mobilised. Liquid acoustics is understood to enable the circulation of the unheard or the bounded: A sonic liquidity that adapts to given conditions in order to cross borders, bypass obstacles, and leak into cracks and crevices. Liquid acoustics may flood the designated arenas of speech with an excess of meaning, laughter, sharing, or through a silence that resists the dictates of the properly spoken. Extending from Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of “liquid modernity”, the Forum will contend with the potentialities and problematics of our contemporary liquid state. This will take place through a series of mini-workshops and shared discussions with participants in collaboration with University of Applied Arts Vienna, as well as through the presentation of events under the heading “experimental research club” held at the Arena Bar. These sessions will adopt the situation of the Bar as a performative space for types of research action, including the staging of materials developed in the Forum, performative works by invited guests, and the crafting of an experimental sociality.

Auszüge aus eine Live-Performance "Lounge music – Loungeová hudba" ein Dialog mit no-input-mixer und Schafen auf Einladung von Brandon LaBelle und Ricarda Denzer's Dirty Ear Forum # 9 sound, multiplicity and radical in Wien, Arena Bar, 20.März- 23.März 2019, Literatur und Sound: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Stimmperformance und Übersetzung: Nicole Sabella.

Document produced by participating students.

Dirty Ear Forum is an ongoing artistic platform initiated in 2013 by Brandon LaBelle. This edition is organized by Brandon LaBelle and Ricarda Denzer in collaboration with participating artists and researchers, including: Additional collaboration with Art and Communication Practices (KKP) University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Kunstradio.