how to embody autonomy through listening

Listening exercises is a workshop aimed at those who work in the field of art and culture and wants to highlight and encourage practices of coexistence and collaboration that coincide with finding their own autonomy in making art and culture through mutual support, escaping the policies of the contemporary system that impose a repressive standard towards art and culture itself.

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how to escape the policies of control and re-gain the autonomy of the art?

The discussion around autonomy is contextualized within the contrast of quantitative democracy, where people is called every few years to vote anonymously, and qualitative democracy, where the commons - continuously and contingently re-shaped - opens up a democratic space for the singular and constantly re-create a space for singular but synchronized voices to pop up. 

In the same way artists are called to re-appropriate of their autonomy by dismantling relations of dependency and claim the authority of re-building their “own” commons - again and again and again. 

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How to re-shape the commons?
Embody autonomy through listening:

STEP 1 - being singular but synchronized
STEP 2 - open up a democratic space for the singular
STEP 3 - building the commons through contamination

Listening with intention turns into an intimate and subversive action at the same time: listening as a political act, as singular and collective empowerment.