Program
Meet Anna Gavanas, Onkar Singh Kular, Brandon LaBelle.
Please join us for an evening of performative presentations that give narrative to transformative listening experiences and how they’ve shaped life-long journeys in sound and music. Developed in the context of the creative research project Aural Histories, personal stories emerge as a lens through which to gauge the greater movements of cultural histories and social worlds. At its center, is a passionate recognition as to sound and music’s power of influence, where records, radios, sound systems and the noises of streets and oceans move us with their energies and meanings.
No preparation required and everyone is welcome.
Free entrence and drop in!
Doors 18.30. Starting at 19.00.
The evening is a a part of MONOLOG – the popular scientific lecture series organized in collaboration between MONO, the Cultural University this evening as part of Linnaeus Residency Programme and Smålandstriennalen.
Anna Gavanas is a social anthropologist with a focus on dance music culture, working life, migration, and family politics. She has published a number of interview based and archival studies on Swedish electronic dance music scenes with a focus on technological shifts, gender and cultural politics. Gavanas has also worked as a DJ and producer since the 1990s and onwards.
Onkar Singh Kular is Professor of Design at HDK Valand, Academy of Art & Design, University of Gothenburg. His research is disseminated through exhibitions, programming, education and publications. He has guest-curated exhibitions for The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, Karachi, and the Crafts Council, UK. He was Stanley Picker Fellow in 2016, Artistic Director of Gothenburg Design Festival in 2017, Co-Artistic Director of Luleå Art Biennial in 2022 and curator of the sonic festival, Bass Cultures, How Low Can You Go! Falkenbergs teater, Sweden in 2023.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer, theorist, and artistic director of The Listening Biennial. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives, such as Communities in Movement (2019-2023) and Oficina de Autonomia (2018-). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: Poetics of Listening (2025), Dreamtime X (2022), Acoustic Justice (2021), The Other Citizen (2020), among others.