1.
talk

Listening across our homelands
AM Kanngieser and Zoe Todd

April 21st at 3–4:30pm MST

This conversation will engage our experiences of prioritizing practices of listening and relationality across diverse social-environmental contexts, paying close attention to the obligations and concerns we specifically feel as we travel outside of our ancestor’s homelands. Thinking through the complex layered histories that shape settler and colonial realities across Oceania and Canada, and our responsibilities to diverse Indigenous nations over these lands and seas, we will reflect on what it means to listen and act in ways that acknowledge our positions through time and space. We will elucidate the methods we use to consider and approach these responsibilities, which guide us through contexts of ongoing dispossession.

2.
workshop

Sensing, attuning and noticing: listening to environments
AM Kanngieser

April 21st at 5–6:30pm MST

How with live in the world is always interdependent and situated within environments and place. Listening is a way of feeling into these relations. Listening is not only about aural hearing it is about sensing, attuning and noticing. In this session, participants will be asked to undertake a daily listening and writing/ reflection practice for seven days to connect to where they are and to become sensitive to how they relate to their surroundings, and how their surroundings shift and change in relation to them.

This event is a collaboration between the CoLAB and the KIAS’s Kule Scholar’s Program. Supported by the Kule Institute for Advance Study, the President’s Grants for the Creative and Performing Arts from the Killam Research Fund at the University of Alberta, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Dr. Zoe Todd (Red River Métis) is a practice-led artist-researcher who studies the relationships between Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish futures in Canada. As a Métis anthropologist and researcher-artist, Dr. Todd combines dynamic social science and humanities research and research-creation approaches – including ethnography, archival research, oral testimony, and experimental artistic research practices – within a framework of Indigenous philosophy to elucidate new ways to study and support the complex relationships between Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish well-being in Canada today. They are a co-founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures, which is a collaborative Indigenous-led initiative that is 'restor(y)ing fish futures, together' across three continents. They were a 2018 Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow, and in 2020 they were elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars.

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AM Kanngieser is an award-winning geographer, sound artist and Marie Curie Research Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. They work through listening and attunement to approach the relations between people, place and ecologies, combining oral testimony, poetry, and voice with hyper-detailed soundscapes and field recordings to create immersive installations and radio art pieces. They are the author of Experimental Politics and the Making of Worlds (2013) and Between Sound and Silence: Listening towards Environmental Relations (forthcoming), and have published in a range of interdisciplinary journals including South Atlantic Quarterly and WIREs Climate Change. They are a co-founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures and work extensively in collaboration with Pacific storytellers, artists, advocates and grassroots organisers. Their audio work has been commissioned by Documenta 14 Radio, BBC 3, ABC Radio National, The Natural History Museum London, and Deutschland Radio, amongst others. Their radio art piece “And Then The Sea Came Back” was Jury nominated for the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica, and they have been featured in international arts and music publications including The Wire: Adventures in Sound and Music, Quietus, Transmediale, Outline and Art Quarterly magazines.

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