Excerpt from "Failed Recording", a 30min performance-lecture by research-creation unit acte vide.  Focusing on unexpected, unwarranted or undocumented encounters between listening and recording devices in the field, the presentation intertwined a first-person narrative account with original field and home recordings, silent artefacts, and sound-producing objects gathered during recent fieldwork which the duo still find hard to present in a discursive manner. By conjuring an eerie, uneasy space between autoethnography, irony and fiction, the performance considered witnessing as an act of masking and self-silencing, to explore tacit questions of positionality, epistemic bias and symbolic violence in the domain of listening.

A written version of the performance-lecture text, written and read by Danae Stefanou, is available on http://echogenic.tumblr.com.

Symposium "LISTENING AS WITNESSING" 16-19 October 2023, Circuits and Currents.
Co-organized by Institute of Historical Research (National Hellenic Research Foundation) & The Listening Academy, in collaboration with the Athens School of Fine Arts.

This event received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Project acronym MUTE; grant agreement no. 101002720; PI Anna Papaeti.

Symposium 'LISTENING AS WITNESSING' : Performance by 'acte vide'

ERC MUTE - "Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound and the Ethics of Witnessing Listening"
The project explores issues of music, sound and listening with regard to detention, confinement, migration and displacement.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101002720 – MUTE).

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101002720
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