What kind of knowledge can a voice produce when it speaks without being reduced to a case, a datum or an explanation?
Development
Testimony is not transparent material. Every voice contains rhythms, silences, contradictions and particular ways of organising experience. Listening requires preserving that singularity.
This strand studies conversation, first-person narrative and the transmission of lived experience as forms of knowledge. A voice does not merely illustrate a pre-existing theory: it can alter it, challenge it and open paths that the institutional framework had not anticipated.
Working questions
Who can speak?
How can a voice be preserved?
What does silence do within a testimony?
Who can speak?
How can a voice be preserved?
What does silence do within a testimony?
Related devices
Listening device
Open Dialogues
Speaking about the inevitable. Listening to the unnameable.
An archive of voices that places listening at the centre of accompaniment, care and consolation in experiences of existential vulnerability.
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Listening device
Hemen
Dedicated to the memory of Eliane Radigue
A first-person journey through the experience of a patient body, articulated through writing, a diary and an audiovisual essay.
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Listening device
Tape Dead Club
Sound creation workshop with analogue tape
A listening and mediation process addressing the situated knowledge that adolescents possess and embody.
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Listening device
The Belliphonic Mind
Acoustic memory of armed conflicts
A sound-based investigation into the acoustic associations through which we recognise and remember military violence.
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