Hear Here is a site-responsive podcast series hosted by Nirmal Puwar. It is recorded in different parts of Coventry Cathedral, focusing on listening anew to the space. Guests bring their distinctive specialisms to the place. Collaborative fellowship is key to the art of dialogue and the art of listening. As a connector, a public academic facilitates an ecology of practices, focused on valuing the knowledge of the guests.
Spaces and archives are opened up, connected and enlivened through a variety of routes. Approached from the sidelines, in wayward directions, in-between the big frames and hanger narratives, a call-and-response of imaginations starts shifting our groundings. Conversations spiral towards an experimental index of the place, unfurling global planetary stories. Material archives are activated in the arts of contact zones, with generosity and care.
- Podcast Producer: Duncan Whitley
- Transcription Editor: Phavine Phung
References
Les Back (2007) The Art of Listening, Oxford: Berg Publishers.
Stuart Hall (2001) ‘Constituting an archive’. Third Text, 15(54), 89–92.
Saidiya Hartman (2018) ‘On working with archives’, The Creative Independent, 18 April. Available at: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/saidiya-hartman-on-working-with-archives/
Alessandro Portelli (2018) “Living Voices: The Oral History Interview as Dialogue and Experience”. The Oral History Review, 45(2), 239–248.
Mary Louise Pratt (1991) ‘Arts of the Contact Zone’, Profession, 33–40.
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (2017) Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds, University of Minnesota Press.
Nirmal Puwar N and Sanjay Sharma (2012) ‘Curating Sociology’. The Sociological Review, 60 (1_suppl), 40-63.
Isabel Stengers (2005), 'Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices', Cultural Studies Review, 1 (11), March, pp. 183-196.
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