On the Thursday prelude to the festival, ctivist and academic Luis Manuel Garcia- a Mispireta will share an online keynote lecture on “Stranger Intimacy on the Dancefloor”, offering an introduction to affect theory and its relationship to sound and music. Artists Stine Janvin & Ula Sickle will follow with a discussion on connectivity, memory, touch and other senses that filter into their installation “Echoic Choir”, which they present during Rewire 2022. Ahead of their Tactology Lab performances, Lab curators Dianne Verdonk & Roald van Dillewijn will present a showand-tell talk with various self-made instruments to reflect on the tacticity of sound and reflect on their experimental work which finds new physical ways of interacting with technology for performing arts. “Talking About Music”, a panel with Proximity Music curator Matteo Marrangoni and artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, bringing together different musical backgrounds for a collective listening session to investigate the languages we use to talk about music and the consequences and effects this has on our experiences. Bianca Ludewig, a cultural anthropologist who researches artistic practices and working conditions at transmedia festivals, will share a talk titled “Affective Communities”. She will also join Nkisi on Sunday for a conversation on the educational and healing properties in vibrations, in connection with the sonic ancestral research that feeds into Nkisi’s new project with The Secret Institute titled Invisible Gestures—the first encounter of this project will be shared Saturday night at Paard. Performances of interest to this theme include Lamin Fofana, Nkisi, The Tactology Lab, Tirzah and Echoic Choir. In addition, the exhibition of Proximity Music: Sensing After Thought invites you to perceive and experience sound in new ways. Later in 2022, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta will publish Together, Somehow: Music, 78 — Discourse
Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor with Duke University Press. He has sustained blogs for over 10 years as part of his fieldwork and writing practice. The below extract is taken from luisinparis.blogspot.com and will feature prominently across several chapters of his forthcoming book. samedi, septembre 05, 2009
Souvenir 03: The Welcome Home (with Seuil)
OK, so I’m writing this more than two months after the event itself, but I just had to document one thread of events from the party that I thought was really interesting: At the party itself, sometime around 2 or 3 a.m., a girl dancing near me approaches and asks, “Hey, are you Luis?” When I say yes, she seems really thrilled and says,
