Discover the sound programme in collaboration with Radio Grenouille from the 29th of August until the 9th of October 2020, part of the public programme of Traits d’union.s.

For the first Listening Session, Radio Grenouille-Euphonia has asked Elena Biserna to look at the current feminist movements and will broadcast Voix debout by Elena Biserna and Carole Rieussec.

According to Paul B. Preciado, “We were on the verge of a decolonial transfeminist uprising” on the 8^th of March 2020: an international revolt that culminated in the feminist strike. A few days later, in France and other countries, the health crisis and lockdown measures seemed to suspend this momentum: by depriving us of this collective body, by fragmenting our voices, by atomising our lives, by isolating us. But the songs, the vibrations, the rebellious energy of this mobilisation continued to resonate throughout the lockdown and fuelled new forms of alliance, exchange, resistance and solidarity.

Credits:

Composed for wi watt’heure #32, Revue & Corrigée‘s sound column

With sounds of: Merce Almuni Calull, Elena Biserna, Caroline Boë, Juliette Bonnafé, Collectif de mobilisation Féministes Antiracistes & Café Congo, Collectif toutes et tous etrangers, Fernando Fuentes, Julie Gilbert, Laëtitia Hell-Gonzalez, La Lleca, Las Tesis, MEUFs!, Natacha Muslera, Rocío Nejapa, Lorena Mendez, Radiorafales, Carole Rieussec, Adriana Rodriguez, Claire Serres, Heléne Soulié.

With extracts from the texts of: Judith Butler, Feministas transfronterizas, Paul B. Preciado, Françoise Vergès.

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Elena Biserna is an art historian and curator. Her research focuses on interdisciplinarity in art, listening, sound art, “situated” art practices and their relationship to urban dynamics, socio-cultural processes and the public and political sphere. She has taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, at the Université d’Aix-Marseille, and at the École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence. Her texts have been published in international publications and specialised journals. She co-directs the wi watt’heure section of Revue & Corrigée with Carole Rieussec, co-organises the series La Membrane and the seminar Pratiques de l’écoute, écoute de pratiques at IMéRA Marseille. She has collaborated with various organisations as a curator.

Carole Rieussec is a composer and performer. Since 1986, she has been composing and improvising with voices, electronic sounds, silences and world rhythms. In 1990, she met Jean-Kristoff Camps in a seven-piece turntable septet, les arènes du vinyle. Together they created the duo Kristoff K.Roll.

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Part of the public programme and in collaboration with Radio Grenouille, the Listening Sessions feature sound performances that will take place at different venues during the biennial. Two of them also include an artist residency. Radio Grenouille has conceived collective listening experiences that introduce the audience to the principles of listening. Collective listening places sound at the centre of a social moment, reactivating and sharing speech.

Listen to the listening session (in French) here:

Park Longchamp Palais Longchamps, 13004 Marseille, France