Cityphonic Walks — listening beneath the silent skin

** In case of rain the walk will take place next Sunday (8 December). **

How does the public space sound? Who has a right to the city? Can sound create and shape democratically accessible spaces and how? What happens when the body interacts with them?

The artistic project Cityphonic Walks by Irini Kalogeropoulou explores the voice of the city through a soundwalk that starts from Kypseli (KET), passes through Patissia and ends at KET for a short discussion. Through a score based method of walking, active listening and sound production, this participatory action invites people of all ages to discover the invisible and silent sides of the city. Everyday life becomes a canvas of observation and a field of action where one can listen to a house, a street, a city as one listens to a symphony or an opera.

Starting from text scores by Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, David Helbich or the artist herself, the participants reflect on the political and poetic dimension of sound, share listening experiences, play the city as an expanded instrument, and together imagine practices of care, resonance, solidarity and reappropriation of public space. Cityphonic Walks invites us to listen and expand the voice of the city, balancing between presence and absence, silence and noise, movement and stillness of bodies living and breathing together.

Irini Kalogeropoulou was born and raised in Athens. She studied at the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens and obtained an MA in Performing Public Space from Fontys Academy of the Arts (Tilburg, Netherlands). She holds a Diploma in Piano from the Hellenic Conservatory of Maroussi. Her artistic practice focuses on sound art and public space, exploring themes such as mourning, absence, memory and the performativity of everyday life. She recently held an art residency at the Temporary Art Centre in Eindhoven where she presented her artistic research entitled “Cityphonic Walks” through a solo exhibition, soundwalk and live art performance. She is also active as a theatre educator in art spaces, schools and organisations, designing contemporary art workshops and participatory activities for people of all ages.

www.irinikalogeropoulou.myportfolio.com/irini-kalogeropoulou

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