Listening With Ximena Alarcón Díaz, PhD

In this episode we will hear from the Columbian born and UK residing sound artist Dr. Ximena Alarcón Díaz. She is a sound and listening artist-researcher exploring embodied forms of sensing place and telepresence to listen to and sound collectively our sonic migrations. She speaks about how migration and geographical changes alters the sense of bodily placement and leads to dislocation. She also addresses the idea of relational listening in the concept of cultural inbetweeness and uses Anna Mendieta's performances are one illustration of this idea.