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Performance art highlights the complex relationship between listening and recording, suggesting deeper implications for positionality.
Focusing on unexpected, unwarranted or undocumented encounters between listening and recording devices in the field, failed recording is a sound and text performance by research-creation unit acte vide (Danae Stefanou & Ioannis Kotsonis). The performance intertwined a fictional first-person narrative account with original field and home recordings, silent artefacts, and sound-producing objects gathered during fieldwork which we still find hard to present in a discursive manner. By conjuring an eerie, uneasy space between autoethnography, overidentification, irony and fiction, the performance considered witnessing as a resistant act of masking and self-silencing, to explore tacit questions of positionality, epistemic bias and symbolic violence in the domain of listening.
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