Talking about the Anthropocene
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Ben Rivers, Look Then Below, 2019. Courtesy of Ben Rivers and LUX, London.
A day of talks to accompany the Listening to the Anthropocene exhibition at Coventry Cathedral. Speakers will include artists from the exhibition, as well as writers and academics who are critically engaged with climate change and the concept of the ‘anthropocene’ (which suggests that we have entered a new geological age, defined by the impact of human activities on the planet). There will be a focus on how practices of listening, field recording and sound art can address these issues in useful ways.
11.00 – 12.20: Intro by Dr Michael Pigott (Warwick) followed by Keynote from Prof Holger Schulze (Sound Studies Lab, University of Copenhagen)
12.20 – 12.30: Refreshments
12.30 – 13.15: Dr AM Kanngieser (Royal Holloway, exhibiting artist) and Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins (University of Warwick) in conversation
13.15 – 13.45: Prof Alice Mah (Warwick) – ‘Planetary Resonance and Dischord’
13.45 – 14.15: Refreshments
14.15 – 14.45: Dr Salome Voegelin (CRISAP, University of the Arts London) and Lisa Hall (CRISAP, University of the Arts London) – ‘And it tastes like hair’
14.45 – 15.30: Roundtable with Kate Carr (exhibiting artist), KMRU (exhibiting artist), Dr Michael Pigott (curator)
15.30 – 16.15: Prof Noortje Marres (Warwick) – ‘What does it sound like? Sampling sounds of Coventry’s future’
END of talks part of the day.
The symposium will be followed by a live performance by KMRU in the central nave of Coventry Cathedral, using the Listening to the Anthropocene sound system, and a screening of Raquel Castros’ film SOA in the Chapter House of the Cathedral, which explores the relationship between sound and the environment in the work of a wide range of contemporary sound artists.
We also have online event Beyond the Anthropocene from Parallel State in the evening, with a range of guest speakers imagining alternative solutions to life on earth, free from the oppositional constraints of the failed states in which we live.
In partnership with and generously supported by The University of Warwick.
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