12:00 We are starting the afternoon with a hot soup at Skogen, moving outside towards Linnéplatsen and back again doing listening sessions and a mini lecture.
The session on November 8th takes as its throughline listening to the places we inhabit, in their materiality and historicity. Lena Sawyer shares the methodology she developed for Listening, the performance-lecture project made with Nana Osei-Kofi — a practice of attending to the low frequencies of a monument: the stories, counter-narratives and refusals it carries, and the alternative visions it might hold, as they did with the bronze at Järntorgsbrunnen that praises Gothenburg's iron trade. This time the practice is activated on the statue at Linnéplatsen.
Jennifer Lacey brings listening practices drawn from her choreographic work, where dancing is one continuation of listening — an act of resonance that gives form to what the body meets, and a way of thinking in and with the body rather than through words.
Valentina comes to the series as a continuation of her work on performance as study; Alice takes it as a chance to open up her own listening scores. What emerges is not agreement, but a fragile coexistence: a space where difference is neither resolved nor reduced, but sustained — where listening becomes an ethical act, an openness to being touched that does not demand access, and a presence with others that does not seek to possess or define what they hear. End 15:00 at Skogen
