Breathing as a Gentle Gesture
Lukas Lund
Email: lukasquistlund@gmail.com
Website: bureauforlistening.com
Conversation for Listening –
‘For’, and not ‘of’. Shift in authority and intention, as well, perhaps, a shift in attention.
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In what way is listening a gentle mode of learning, a sensitive and co-dependent pedagogy and a suggestive explorative artistic practice, all at once?
How can the conversation as practice, methode and site for researching listening offer both knowledge and experience, for the conversationalists as well as readers?
If the open-ended, investigative and philosophical conversation becomes fragmentized, loses its coherency and progressive line of intent and argumentation, what then? How does the imagination and suggestive caring involvement of the reader merge with the intention of exploring listening as a gentle practice?
How does the fragmentized conversation for listening become a piece of poetic research material?
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This is a fragmentised gentle conversation for listening which explores the teaching and sound based artistic practice of ass. prof. Marie Koldkjær Højlund.
The conversation lasts for over an hour and based on the principles of an open-ended philosophical investigative conversation. The fragmentation of the transcripted conversation leaves the reader without access to a ‘meta-position’ of knowing the context and premises constituting the conversation: the questions, answers, descriptions etc. The reader will therefore be invited to meet the blank spaces, the bits of conversation, with speculative imagination – hopefully in a gentle manner – to generate meaning. The value and outcome of this poetic research material is intended to be equally created by the conversationalists, editor and reader.
A longer series of these conversations is to be published by Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, summer 2024.
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About the author
Lukas Quist Lund (b. 1997, DK) is a philosopher, art historian, and organizer, working on interdisciplinary projects through philosophical and artistic inquiry. He has taught at the Danish National School of Performing Arts and is artistic director of Bureau for Listening.