Hearing Voices Ceremonies

Radical Redistribution Of Time Space Attention For The Pleasure Of Belonging With Each Other Beyond Consumption Culture Of Connection.

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Pandemic, healing justice, trauma studies have been forces that centered the body/soma and communitarian belongings as crucial to shift social consciousness. The performing arts field, people with migrant background, intersectional feminist queer activism, have been keenly focused on this shift, changing their course or radicalizing it, re-orienting their purpose, their modi operandi and aesthetics/understanding of production and intervention.

Social Pleasure Center has gathered these communities in embodied post-activist initiatives, implementing politicized perspectives on somatics and bringing somatic literacy to activist circles. "Hearing Voices" has been aimed to collect testimonies of the lived experience of participants, hosts and producers who in the last two years contributed to SPC.

"Hearing Voices" is a collection of recordings, answering the questions:
How do you contribute to community, and why do you need it?
Why is generating politicized somatic communities relevant right now?
How does a physical place impacted your sense of belonging?
Which role can performing arts/artists play in building community through somatics for social change?
What structures and new understanding (of performance, social work, audience status), can make this initiative sustainable?

Yoav Admoni, Ali Bay, Melanie Bonajo, Nattan Dobkin, Lou Drago, Pepper Fisher, Panico Gay, Philipp Gehmacher, Barbara Greiner, Grace Guthrie, Zoe Harris, Keith Hennesey, Stefan Hilterhaus, Zen Jefferson, Mathias Klitgård, Eddy Levin, Jessie Omamogho, Petra Poelzi, Tone Puorro, Heather Purcell, Syd Ramirez, Mel Redmer, Vincent Reynaud, Maria F. Scaroni, Coral Short, Keira Sinclair, Joy Mariama Smith, Mateusz Szymanowka, Billy Thorp & Margarita Tsoumou