Colour Touch Sound. Encountering the Vegetal pt.2

6-7pm
Lecture Performance by Mélia Roger

With microphones attached to her hands and listening to the amplified touch through headphones, Mélia Roger explores hidden and unheard layers of the landscape. She is stroking, touching, feeling the roughness of surfaces she is care-fully listening to. Inspired by the notion of “in-between” developed by the sound artist and researcher Salomé Voegelin, the sonic textures created with this concept are highlighting relations normally existing in void and silence, without any touch. The point of connection, seemingly a sonic friction, can be explored with care and tenderness, questioning the consent of others – as if the microphones were activating the troubled layer between her hands and the non-human skin. Trying to shift away from an anthropocentric listening position, Mélia Roger offers the term ‘eco-empathic listening’ to address the act of carefully listening to non-human and more-than-human beings: Listening to her touch of barks, rocks and leaves, she offers an embodied way to listen to others.

7–8pm
Discussion with Dunja Krcek and Mélia Roger, moderated by Gilly Karjevsky

Before, from 2-5pm, a walk and workshop on the biodiversity at Alexanderplatz, plant color palettes and their localization in urban contexts will be guided by the visual artist Dunja Krcek.