Listening as Witnessing
<p>Inaugurating the journal <em>Witnessing</em>, this issue shares the notion of witnessing as a process that “cannot be fully grasped by one discipline single-handedly but requires the methodological tools and practices of many.” The articles, essays, and audio essays explore – critically and multimodally – listening as a process of witnessing with regard to traumatic, invisible or inaudible sounds, voices, (hi)stories. How is trauma acoustically represented? What does it take to make an absent sound or voice heard? What is the ethical and political positionality of listening as witnessing? And what of the unlistenable, when it becomes difficult to listen further? What kind of response and responsibilities does listening-witnessing call for? Can mutualities and networks of care develop through practices of listening in such contexts? Can listening become the point where different struggles meet? What are the intersections of listening-witnessing and art practices? An encounter of scholars, artists, and researchers, this issue aims at collaborative dialogue. Contributing to new perspectives on listening as witnessing, it hopes to initiate a redistribution of the heard. Published in a politically bleak moment in time, when human rights once taken for granted are consistently undone, far-right ideologies, racism, nationalism, and violence are spiralling out of control against a wide range of Others, while environmental crises, war, and genocide are raging, we wish to open up a dialogue with engaged communities of peers.</p>
Editors: Brandon LaBelle, Anna Papaeti
Contributors: Brandon LaBelle, Anna Papaeti, Gene Ray, Nelli Kambouri, Dana Papachristou, Yorgos Samantas, Leandros Kyriakopoulos, Stefanos Levidis, Eva Matsigkou, Lefteris Krysalis, acte vide, Danae Stefanou, Ioannis Kotsonis
Website Manager: Eftychia Georgakopoulou
Designer: Bend
Developer: Christoforos Vradis
National Hellenic Research Foundation
Part of: Witnessing
ISSN: 3057-5605