From the Act to the Listen

From the Act to the Listen Link of the project: https://balamronan.net/del-acto-a-la-escucha/ "Belonging to the same group, in effect, does not mean anything other than listening together." Peter Sloterdijk Objective The objective of this project is the creation of sonic actions in the public space, of a contextual and participatory nature, with the objective of inviting people to listen to the environment, the people and themselves. This through momentarily interrupt the everyday to listen to us and so try to generate a reflection and dialogue with the places and people; to try to recover the perception of our sound environment, through awareness, think and question our sound experiences, from various criteria, objective and subjective, personal, social, economic, political… Nowadays… The cities are a reflection of neoliberal economics and finance, which seek to subordinate society, the environment and a politics under a unique model, their model. Spaces have been created where there is no room for reflection and coexistence. The privacy, freedom of expression, access to information, and participation in the economy and politics are restricted. The people, the social groups, the cultural differences, the economic inequality and the inequality of rights, matter less and less. In neoliberalism the only relationship that is seeks is the competition with the other people. Therefore… I think it is necessary to rethink our social fabric, our relationships with other people, whether we know it or not; I think it is necessary to rethink our responsibility as citizens of the same city, to rethink public spaces as spaces of relationship and contact with other people, as spaces for encounter, dialogue, participation and construction. I think it is necessary to configure spaces of learning, where we learn to perceive our context and our relations, where we learn to listen, say, do and think of another way, where we relearn to see the world. What we learn is what really transform us. I think it is necessary to analyze our society from other perspectives, in this case I would like to work from the auditory and participatory level, and thus generate from artistic strategies other perceptions of the city and experience in a more conscious way our belonging and incidence in it, try to generate an awareness that we are part of a wider and more complex totality. I would like the people take the actions as a tool to connect with society and think about this from another angle. It interests me that from the experience of participating in the actions, we reflect on our soundscape and our society. I am interested in reflect on our way of talk to us and listen to us, of relate us. I am interested in catalyzing another way of perceiving and living the public space through the auditory transformation of it, which can lead to a better understanding of the world and a better way of living it. I am interested in working with sound for the properties it contains as a means of information and communication. Sounds have meanings that inform us about where we are, the our of the day, the season of the year… they have different meanings and messages that influence on everyday behavior, produce different reactions, feelings and sensations. For this reason, I want to recover the sound in everyday life, and the importance of listening to generate other forms of relate and understand our context. Actions Action no. 1 It is an action in public spaces of the Downtown of Queretaro, Mexico, in which through a series of questions, people are invited to listen to different parameters of the soundscape. The questions are projected through an audio recording, and this through four headphones that are placed on a mobile and removable structure. Between each question was left a space of 20

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