@ -105,6 +105,50 @@ Media theorist Geert Lovink is apparently missing out on what is happening here
Poetics, the poetics of the medium, the poetics of the voice being metiated
Future: leaving the social sphere and the self, after the practice has been clear. Thinking of the condition of the medium, the device, the software, the technology/ the landscape of it, the low-tech, the abandonence. Metaphor of the human loneliness. Lonileness, how I experience it, and the connection with an object. The idea of it. Detachement of myself and the responsibilty of it.
# Proposals
## Streaming voices of West Rotterdam !!!I KEEP THAT ONE!!! Subterranean streams {#streaming_voices_of_west_rotterdam_i_keep_that_one_subterranean_streams}
It is a social project.Sound is used as a way to reveal things about
private and public, suppression of voices in that area with a broader
concern on how the voices are amplified. It is about revealing hidden
aspects of this Dutch area that it is connected How stories underneath
are revealed Sound excavation Where the private/public and gender
separation is present in that specific example. What modes of address
are present. How they are mediated. Is there a collective voice?
Leeszaal is my meeting point I visit the area, recording characteristic
sounds from it, walk and then visit Leeszaal as a meeting point of these
people that are related to that area.
why: occuping with sound, female ways of knowing, caring, concerning
I will make my archive of recorded sounds open to the people that are
related to the area and I will start conversations about them and their
personal connection with them. I wil give an object to discuss, like a
printed soundwave where they can annotate on it and then I will come
back with a new thing. THe process will be about involvement. Then
gradually this process will reveal topic that are important for them to
discuss and record voices or not. This process will create an archive of
sounds either recordings, findings, voices that maybe I will stream.
The process is about liveness. Spread the area\'s secret sides live. Its
also about \"re-membering of the past which, against the colonialist
practices of erasure and avoidance and the related desire to set time
aright, calls for thinking a certain undoing of time; a work of mourning
more accountable to, and doing justice to, the victims of ecological
destruction and of racist, colonialist, and nationalist violence, human
and otherwise -- those victims who are no longer there, and those yet to
come\" (Barad, 2018)
I am going introduce layers of mapping and I will reflect with my own
voice as well
in streaming you dont have the time to edit and reflect you just accept
it is like the agonistic model no time for thinking about future utopias
and realities but what is happening now. West Rotterdam what is
happening now. Archive as a process for transmitting (storage or
The marginalized modes of address share concerns that seem uninteresting or bad for the Western formal and civilized society, that supports a democracy rooting in the Ancient Greek politics. Because of their ugliness, they are suppressed and accused as ugly forms, then filtered and censored before they been expressed in public. They share unfiltered, unedited messages that overpass the rational sphere of speech. From my perspective the medium used by these modes reflects their character. They are based on instant and urgent communication, liveness, "hit and run" approach (from Multiplication...). Today streaming media is used constantly by protesters or citizens for broadcasting news by themselves that are not censored by the government. Streaming media is characterized by the distribution of unfiltered data, the sense of liveness and the continuity (direct distribution) of the message. In this essay I will explain how the use of streaming media and the concept of streaming in general can be related to these 'ugly' forms of mediation. How these kind of media transmits 'ugly' things, according to the rational society, that marginalized people need to communicate for establishing their own voice and find space for their own desires. I think that the acceptance of continuity and direct mediation can facilitate more democratic processes.
## What ugly things and the medium
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Streaming media reflects a sense of liveness and presence. There is no time to reflect or edit the message *Clara and pauline oliveros mediation, workshop at tender*. The audience receives the message directly from the proprietor and can see clearly who is broadcasting, what is the source, how it looks like.
## Conclusion
The ugly forms of address are pushed away because they reveal the hidden dark side of a 'democratic' society. The allowance of them can become crucial for the democracy we want to be part of. As "the prime task of democratic politics is not to eliminate passions or to relegate them to the private sphere in order to establish a rational consensus in the public sphere. Rather, it is to 'tame' those passions by mobilizing them towards democratic designs" (Mouffe, 2013). Focus more on the media that allow/facilitate this process to happen can open possibilities and alternatives of democratic processes.
The ugly forms of address are pushed away because they reveal the hidden dark side of a 'democratic' society. The allowance of them can become crucial for the democracy we want to be part of. As "the prime task of democratic politics is not to eliminate passions or to relegate them to the private sphere in order to establish a rational consensus in the public sphere. Rather, it is to 'tame' those passions by mobilizing them towards democratic designs" (Mouffe, 2013). Focus more on the media that allow/facilitate this process to happen can open possibilities and alternatives of democratic processes.
