E01 - Sonic Investigations of the Infra-Commons 1

The three podcasts that make up Sonic Investigations of the Infra-Commons are fruit of a workshop led by Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson and Giulia Crisci which took place in June 2021 as part of the Summer Academy of the National Theatre of Mannheim (Germany), conceived and accompanied by Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs and Laura Strack. The inspiration for the workshop was to revisit, in the light of the ongoing pandemic, Félix Guattari's idea for a science-fiction film, "A Love of UIQ", involving an infra-quark particle that begins to spread virally, causing disturbances and mutations in society and the natural world, and affecting both living beings and machines. Experimenting with speculative narration, reciprocal maieutics, languages, sound, rhythm and affect, we tried to imagine intensive new gestures and collective ways of re-appropriating time, care and autonomy. Three groups worked together to reimagine this infinitely small particle in terms of a contagion that might have beneficial and potentially healing properties and to produce a podcast presenting the ideas, sounds and recordings they came up with in whatever form they wished.PODCAST 1 - Just ListenConceived and produced by Helena Baur, Jule Hermann, Kerim El-Mokdad, Eva Kirchner, Emre Koyuncuoğlu and Delaja Ramirez.The following podcast turns the image of a virus as a sign of catastrophe into a new possibility. It plays with the idea of a mutating nervous system which our group imagined as a way out - a way to escape the pressures of capitalist society and find a more "sensitive" way of living.Before you listen, imagine switching on a mainstream radio station to what appears to be a piece of investigative broadcast journalism and then trying to figure out what on earth they are talking about.Eva KirchnerSeries introduction: Graeme Thomson & Silvia MaglioniMusic: Graeme ThomsonMany thanks to Laura Strack, Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs and the National Theatre of Mannheim (Schillertage Festival).