Wed 26 Mar 2025
Close Attention Study Circle
To notice is a full-bodied project of being in a specific material, physical, bodily, affective, geopolitical, cultural, historical and socio-environmental spacetime. To notice is to put one’s imaginaries to check and trace their effects in co-forming a milieu: imaginaries are never abstractions but consequential political matterings. (Neimanis, 2017)
My proposal here is an ethics with neither origin nor conclusion, ethics which are continually produced in the present, in being present. Ethics here are not simply about relationships: distant, objective and cool. They are born of relationships, of relating: directly, intersubjectively and warmly. An intimate process which never ends. (Heckert, 2010)
Unless all of us are free none of us are free. Fundamentally re-inscribing what liberty is outside of individual liberties. It’s about the capacity to notice how things are and as such imagine how they could be not as they are. (Leung, 2023)
Knowing another is endless… The thing to be known grows with the knowing. (Shepherd, 1977)
PARSE introduces Close Attention, a monthly study circle exploring site-sensitive artistic practices through four interconnected thematic topics: Multi-voices, Maintenance, Listening, and Slowness. Together, we’ll develop a theoretical framework that examines the methods, poetics, and ethics of artistic approaches rooted in deep, attentive engagement with place and context.
Proposed texts include:
– Silent Whale Letters: A Long-Distance Correspondence, on all Frequencies (Ella Finer, Vibeke Mascini, 2023)
– Beneath the Surface: Deep Listening, Buried Narratives and Embodied Resistance (Luïza Luz, 2024)
– stewarding (Sean Roy Parker, 2024)
– Dub: Finding Ceremony (Alexis Pauline Gumbs, 2020)
– The Living Mountain (Nan Shepherd, 1977)
Location: Pony Books, Gothenburg (unless otherwise noted)
Language: English
Registration: It is ideal that participants commit to the full schedule. Attendance is limited. Please send a brief email identifying which of the 4 topics is most relevant to your practice by March 17 2025 to rose.brander@gu.se
Schedule 2025 (each session will be connected to a topic with more details, including reading to follow registration).
- March 26 13.00-16.00: Session 1 Pony Books
- April 23 13.00-16.00: Session 2 Pony Books
- May 21 13.00-16.00: Session 3 Pony Books
- June 18 Session 4 LjurhallaFabriken
- August 27 13.00-16.00: Session 5 Pony Books
- September 24 Session 6 LjurhallaFabriken
- October 22 13.00-16.00: Session 7 Pony Books
- November 19 13.00-16.00: Session 8 Pony Books
The study circle is facilitated by Rose Brander.