The Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam is pleased to collaborate with Nieuwe Instituut’s Through Sounds and ALMARE on the realization of
A roundtable on ecological listening, climate change, and the politics of sound
with the participation of Through Sounds, ALMARE, KMRU, Katía Truijen (Loom), and Martina Raponi.
This public gathering is organized by Nieuwe Instituut’s Through Sounds in collaboration with ALMARE. Taking ALMARE’s project Near Silence as a starting point, the roundtable asking practitioners to reflect on “the politics of quiet,” asking: to what extent can sound become a marker for the health of more-than-human environments? What can artists and scholars do to intervene within anthropically saturated soundscapes? How are ‘noise’ and ‘silence’ socially constructed? The roundtable also invites participants to bring in other contexts and sites where similar questions around sound, ecology, and listening are being explored.
Curated and produced by ALMARE, Near Silence focuses on quiet rural and semi-rural zones as critical listening points for understanding climate change and the erosion of soundscapes. The project involves Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist KMRU and Nairobi-based filmmaker Fred Odede in a residency in selected quiet areas of the Alpine regions of Northern Italy, where they gather field recordings and interviews with local communities.
Bridging art and science, the evening’s roundtable extends these lines of inquiry toward the conditions and technologies of ecological listening, exploring how sonic practices articulate relationships between environments, ecologies of living, and forms of urbanism, and how listening technologies shape what can be perceived, captured, and understood.
28 May (afternoon, time to be confirmed)
-1 Digital Lab, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
The event is open to the public with mandatory registration. Limited seats available.
Registration details and link will be posted shortly.
More information on Through Sounds at Nieuwe Instituut – a long-term research project dedicated to sound and sonic culture:
https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/through-sounds
More information on ALMARE:
https://almare.xyz/it
Image Credits: Joseph Kamaru