Field Studies 2017 – Listening after Pauline Oliveiros

In tribute to Pauline Oliveros, who died in November 2016, this programme brings together musicians, artists, theorists, curators and scholars to explore modes of listening, in particular the relation of listening and attunement to perceptions of change and transformation. Alongside her work on Deep Listening, Oliveros’ work pursued the next technology, for example anticipating the internet through forms of telematic and networked performance, or in developing the Expanded Instrument System. These practices of listening with technology as ways of inviting transformation, of facing and renewing the future, appear intertwined in her writing and her music.

The programme is structured in two strands. Field Studies will have a focus around practice-led masterclasses, with three or four groups of 15–20 participants alternating different activities daily and coming together for a set of performances and presentations on the last day Sunday. The Open Programme strand combines talks, panel discussion, and academic papers together with performances, exhibition visits and screenings, including contributions from IONE, Don Ihde, Annie Jamieson (Museum of Science & Media), Paolo Thorsen-Nagel (documenta14) and filmmaker Daniel Weintraub amongst many others.

Students enrolled for Field Studies have access to all events in the Open Programme, although some parallel workshops and talks overlap.