Voiceblind: Matters of Methodology: Recent Episodes
Arias Amsterdam
ARIAS pays attention to voices in artistic research. Find one episode dropped every Friday between 2 April – 28 May 2021 for your listening ears. Voiceblind is the name used by ARIAS in relation to the thematic line 'in the art of listening to the matter' which thinks about radical listening as a methodology for building multi-disciplinary research. Derived from Nick Couldry’s criticism regarding the current ‘crisis of voice’ in neoliberal democracies, Voiceblind takes the opportunity to move beyond dominating sounds in order to share and explore a multiplicity of voices within art and research. Credit where credit is due to Morgane Billuart, Visual Design Graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie who realised this series. This project is initiated by ARIAS, an Amsterdam-based platform forwarding research through the arts and sciences, and sitting between the five knowledge institutions: University of Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Academie/ Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Episode 13: Can we learn to listen to trees? And if so, do trees listen to us?, listening with performer, artist and researcher Christina Della Giustina on their research at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Episode 12: Alzheimer Architecture, designing meaningful and stimulating spaces, listening with architect and researcher Henri Snel associated with the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and the VU Amsterdam.
Embodied Lines, furthering the field of Linealogy, with art-researcher Mike O’ Connor from DAS Researcher (THIRD) Amsterdam University of the Arts.
GHOST: death and listening to artificial intelligence with composer, performance maker and researcher, Asa Horvitz from DAS Theatre, Academy of Theatre and Dance.
The Critical Visitor: How heritage institutions can achieve inclusion and accessibility, listening with PhD candidates Liang-Kai Yu and Nina Littel, in association with Amsterdam University of the Arts, Leiden University and TU Delft.
Smelling Time – the Olfactory Dimension of Futurism, listening with curator, sensory art historian Caro Verbeek from their PhD research at the VU Amsterdam.
Performing an ecology of a composition practice, listening with artistic-researcher Alison Isadora, THIRD Research Fellow at DAS, Amsterdam University of the Arts, and PhD candidate at Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka, Aotearoa Victoria University of Wellington.
How to read a library? Listening with artist, curator, editor, and PhD candidate Mariana Lanari on the urgency to ‘translate’ the library archive from the physical to the digital domain, from their PhD research at Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Cultural, University of Amsterdam.
Naachnewali: The Dancing Girl, with art-researcher Nikita Maheshwary, DAS Research (THIRD) Amsterdam University of the Arts. (12.5 mins)
This short introduction gives context to the following podcast. It explores the point of departure for Morgane Billuart the producer of the podcast, and how she could enter into a discourse about artistic and scientific research during the covid pandemic, and how the format of voiceblind unfolded.
Contemporary Commoning, listening with researcher, curator, and critic René Boer, on the three year Contemporary commoning project at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Making Public, listening with researcher Miriam Rasch on research and practice in Urgent Publishing, from the two year research project at the Insitute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Working with Living Organisms, listening with bio-artist Špela Petrič, on the three year Plant Machine Project at the Hybrid Forms Lab VU Amsterdam.
Climate futures, machine learning from Cli-Fi, listening with Sabine Niederer, Andy Dockett, and Carlo De Gaetano on the ongoing research from the Visual Methodologies Collective, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. (13.5 mins)