During the Collective Sounding, Listening to Contemporary Ecologies workshop, Yuri Tuma, as a representative of The Institute for Postnatural Studies, will unfold different approaches, both theoretical and performative, to facilitate our understanding of sound ecology. He will particularly focus on the Phonocene, described by Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret as a possible era of sound, in which listening is claimed as a vehicle to access new ways of inhabiting the territory and the current ecological crisis. In this experimental workshop we will collectively listen, role-play and perform to enhance and to place our minds, and with it our bodies, in a creative process that will serve as our shared landscape, focusing on new modes for exploring postnature as a conceptual framework. Collectively we will exercise different ways of embodying an expanded notion of the human-animal through vocal activations, writing, meditation and roleplaying. We will activate the political potential of imagining new worlds through academic research and artistic proposals. In the process of creating desirable futures and collaborative healing, we may find unexpected joys that unite us in the contemporary ecological crisis.
Yuri Tuma is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist living in Madrid who focuses on the investigation of contemporary narratives related to sonic ecologies through sound art, installation, collective practices and performance. He works with educational and mediation programs through sound art and performance at Spanish institutions such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Matadero, La Casa Encendida, INLAND, among others. Tuma is a co-founder of the Institute for Postnatural Studies (IPS) in Madrid, a platform that focuses on the relationship between contemporary artistic practice and the necessary revision of the concept of nature. From a multidisciplinary approach, the Institute develops long-term research focused on issues such as ecology, coexistence, politics, and territories. These lines of investigation take different formats, including seminars, exhibitions, and residencies as spaces for academic and artistic experimentation. The IPS works at the intersection between Spain and international practices and debates. In parallel, the Institute has created the publishing platform Cthulhu Books.