March 16./17.
10.00-12.30 / 13.30 - 16.30
Universität / Haute École
for student applications
Age of Receivership
On generous Listening, equality and gender
Moderated by Quinn Latimer and Chus Mart nez, the two day Spring
symposium will be dedicated to active listening. While hearing is a
passive act, listening is an active act of engaging with the other, with
oneself and with nature. There is a gender assumption as well that
subscribes listening and story telling to women and elderly, while
agency and production is subscribe to the male. The symposium will
address the importance of surpassing those binary divisions, while
addressing listening as a key element in reaching equality goals, in
democracy building and in mental health. Through exercises,
performances and talks the symposium will discover an artistic
practice and research engaged in creating active forms of response to
one another.
Students are expected to read the materials that will be distributed beforehand; to actively participate in the discussion; to research and look after examples of the subjects exposed in the symposium in their immediate context; to be attentive at the cultural and contextual differences that exist in the different countries.