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INTIMAL: Interfaces for Relational Listening – Body, Memory, Migration, Telematics (completed)

INTIMAL explores the body as an “interface” for keeping and transforming the memory of place in migratory contexts. The aim is to develop and explore a physical-virtual “embodied system” for relational listening.

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About the project

INTIMAL: Interfaces for Relational Listening – Body, Memory, Migration, Telematics, is envisioned as a long term sustainable modular system for interfaces for relational listening that incorporate customizable tools for ‘tuning’ in our contemporary sense of place, through telematic sonic performance artistic practice. 

Taking as a case study the experience of Colombian migrant women in three cities of Europe: ̽ѡ, London and Barcelona, INTIMAL will be informed by their listening experiences and tested as a catalyst in a process of healing and reconciliation within the context of Colombian post-conflict and peace building. 

Objectives

The research objectives are:

  1. To create an interactive retrieval system of oral archives, which combines semantic and prosodic forms, to facilitate the creative and relational listening to memories of place and conflict;
  2. To explore women's multivocal experience as it creates connections with the body and the feelings of loss associated with place and conflict;
  3. To develop interaction possibilities in the physical-virtual space as "dream space-networked state", that facilitates agency through improvisatory actions between performers, transforming narratives of the self, and the others, as expanded embodied vocal expressions.

Performance

The INTIMAL project culminated in a long-distance performance between ̽ѡ, Barcelona and London in May 2019.

 

Duration

01.09.2017 - 31.08.2019

Collaborators

  • Commission of Truth, memory and reconciliation of Colombian Women in Diaspora
  • CRiSAP, Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice, LCC, University of the Arts London
  • Fundació Phonos Cultura i Tecnologia Musical, University Pompeu Fabra
  • IKLECTIK Art Lab, London
  • The Center for Deep Listening, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Selected publications

  • Alarcón, Ximena (2020) . Internet article for The Sampler.
  • Alarcon Diaz, Ximena and Alexander Refsum Jensenius (2019). . BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of RE:SOUND 2019
  • Alarcon Diaz, Ximena, Paul Boddie, Cagri Erdem, Eigil Aandahl, Elias Sukken Andersen, Eirik Dahl, Mari Lesteberg, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius.  Journal of Network Music and Arts 1, 1 (2019). 
  • Alarcón Diaz, Ximena; Lopez Bojórquez, Lucia Nikolaia; Lartillot, Olivier & Flamtermesky, Helga (2019).  Acervo. Revista do Arquivo Nacional. ISSN 0102-700X. 32(3), 48- 63
  • Alarcón Díaz, Ximena; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Erdem, Cagri. (2019). . Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2019
  • Alarcón Díaz, Ximena (2019). . Somaesthetics and Technology. Journal of Somaesthetics Vol 4 No 2, March 2019
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Participants

Detailed list of participants