AM Kanngieser: Enlivening our responsiveness through embodied listening
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, geographer, writer, and sound artist AM Kanngieser invites us to reconsider the diverse ways in which we register both sound and silence — pushing back against the idea that listening itself is a virtuous act with universality in experience.
Through their own journey as a geographer and sound artist, Kanngieser sheds light on the colonial repercussions of extracting sound, knowledge, and information from landscapes and communities that have historically been taken from without consent.
What are the moral considerations for using recording technologies initially developed for military surveillance? How do we ask for permission to capture sounds—not just from the people of a place but also from the land themselves? And what does it mean to blur the boundaries of our various senses as we become more attuned and responsive to the world?
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| 0:55.0 | There are all these different kinds of silences that we experience and that we move with. |
| 1:02.0 | But for some reason, particularly in Western philosophy, silence is kind of diminished to this idea of lack or loss or emptiness when really silence tells |
| 1:15.7 | us so many different things that's not just about the omission of something. |
| 1:25.5 | You're listening to Green Dreamer and I'm your host, Kamehashane. |
| 1:30.6 | Today we welcome Amer Kangyesser, an award-winning geographer and sound artist, working through listening and attunement to approach the relations between people, place, and ecologies. |
| 1:44.4 | Since 2015, Amir has been collaborating with Pacific women, queer and transgender artists, |
| 1:51.4 | organizers, and scholars through Climates of Listening, which is an ongoing project that |
| 1:57.1 | amplifies movements for self-determination in relation to continuing colonization |
| 2:02.2 | through resource extraction, environmental racism, and ecological disaster. |
| 2:10.6 | It's a really interesting tension this with listening, because I have certainly observed over the past couple of years |
| 2:21.2 | this really strong desire, I would say particularly amongst white people, to embrace this idea |
| 2:29.9 | of listening and learning, you know, this idea that, oh, we just need to listen. And there's this image |
| 2:38.3 | that I always kind of get in my mind of this very concerned kind of white lady with hands clasped |
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