Within the framework of CARTA '22, Antwerp University’s Research Centre for Visual Poetics organizes a series of public lectures and artists talks, and closed seminars. This evening consists of a lecture (20 min.) followed by an artist talk between Milla Tiainen and Begüm Erciyas
What music exists beyond the human? How can plants, other animals, ecosystems have a voice? In her lecture, musicologist Milla Tiainen discusses how artistic practices can give voice to ecological entities and issues. Listening can be an ecological act, the creation of an ecology of sound a form of aesthetic activism.
Begüm Erciyas is house artist of DE SINGEL. During CARTA '22 she presents her new creation 'Silent Forest Gathering'.
Milla Tiainen is a musicologist whose research and teaching relate to music performance studies and voice studies, new materialist and posthumanist theory, cultural and feminist musicology, and sensory studies. She is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Turku, a Docent of Musicology at the University of Helsinki, and the chair of the Finnish Musicological Society. Her current research focuses on non-anthropocentric and ecocritical approaches to/in contemporary musical performance, transgender studies of music and voice, and methodological development of new materialisms and posthumanist thinking in the study of music and other arts. She is author of Locating the Composer (2005; in Finnish) and Becoming-Singer (2012). She is also co-editor of Reconfiguring Authorship in Music and Theatre (2005; in Finnish), Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari (2017), and special issues for such journals as Body & Society (2014), Cultural Studies Review (2015), and The Polish Journal of Aesthetics (2020), among others. Her monograph on a process ontological, new materialist approach to operatic performance is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press.