Pussy Listening - Building an Activist Listening Practice

To be wherever we are in our lives and work now, a large portion of our lives to this point must have been (inadvertently) dedicated to listening correctly and to avoid listening "incorrectly." This kind of relationship to listening comes from a place of submission and forwards the agenda of those in power. In contrast, "pussy listening" is a life-making and meaning-making action.

Professor of Musicology and workshop facilitator Nina Eidsheim will lead a participatory listening session that is dedicated to recognizing pussy listening, as she assumes everybody draws on the magic of pussy listening daily, however, to protect our own safety, we may not recognize it as such.

Part of the SpokenWeb Futures conference.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Nina Eidsheim 

Nina Eidsheim is an internationally renowned sound studies scholar and theorist. She brings extensive knowledge, experience and innovative approaches to practice-based research that focuses on sound and listening. The author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music, Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices.