acoustic-ecological-sociability { 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 facilitates occasions for individual and social acts of listening that expand the senses towards understandings of acoustic-ecological sociability. Julie Andreyev will lead participants on a short listening walk to a local park called Dude Chillin, in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. There, participants will experiment with amplified listening methods and proprioception-equilibrioception-somatosensation-echolocative attention, to generate alternative understandings of hearing, movement, place and cooperation. Discussion will follow. In preparation for the workshop, please wear walking shoes and bring something to serve as a blindfold, such as a scarf, and your own earphones/headphones if you have them. Participants will be provided with amplification and headphones if needed. This workshop will be limited to the first 20 participants. Meet at the main entrance of ECU, by the reception on the second floor.
