biophilic attention with trees { e a r w i n g s } workshop: { e a r w i n g s } is a cluster of alternative listening-specific participatory opportunities produced by Tiny Disasters™, a collaboration between Caroline Park and Julie Andreyev. { e a r w i n g s } facilitates occasions for individual and social acts of listening, to emerge unconventional forms of sensing-feeling-knowing. { e a r w i n g s } invites participants to transform and transgress through listening-actions. Human bodies are coaxed into becoming-animal as earcreatures enacting radical forms of listening, destabilizing customary ways of knowing that favour seeing/languaging. This workshop uses biophilic attention tactics to investigate ecological potentials of exteroceptive, interoceptive, and affective phenomena, with the intention of enhancing empathy for other life-forms, specifically trees. Julie Andreyev will lead participants on a short sensing walk to a local park called Dude Chillin, in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. There, participants will be guided in an experimental workshop using techniques to heighten sensory perception, paying attention to individual interoceptive-affective processes, and more-than-human co-creative mental imagining. Discussion will follow. In preparation for the workshop, please wear walking shoes, dress for (optional) sitting and lying and moving on the ground. This workshop will be limited to the first 15 participants. Meet at the main entrance of ECU, by the reception on the second floor.
