Watch Now! Hungry Listening: A Conversation Between Aruna D’Souza and Dylan Robinson

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Watch a conversation between Aruna D’Souza, writer and curator, and Dylan Robinson, author of Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies and Co-Curator of ICI’s traveling exhibition, Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts. A previously recorded conversation on Robinson’s new book, Hungry Listening is followed by a live Q&A.

Hungry Listening is the first book to consider listening from both Indigenous and settler-colonial perspectives, and a critical response to what has been called the “whiteness of sound studies.” In addition to examples of how decolonial practices of listening emerge from an increased awareness of listening positionality, Hungry Listening includes a series of event scores, dialogic improvisations, and forms of poetic response and refusal that demand a reorientation toward the act of reading as a way of listening.

Presenters

Dylan Robinson

Dylan Robinson is a xwélméxw artist and writer of Stó:lō descent, and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University.

Aruna D'Souza

Aruna D’Souza is a writer and critic based in Williamstown MA, which lies on unceded land formerly occupied by the Mohican people who are now known as the Stockbridge-Munsee community.

This program is co-presented with the Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, where Soundings is on view September 8 - December 6, 2020. The exhibition will be activated by a series of performances throughout the fall, so please click here to stay up to date on all Soundings programs at the Belkin.

This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.