Open Call for the workshop “Theory in the Remix” by Chara Stergiou

Theory in the Remix (2022) is an invitation to collectively explore the felicitous conditions for ‘sonic modes of study’. The same-titled seminars are structured as four (4) two-hour workshops at State of Concept Athens, on the 20th and 27th of October and the 3rd and 10th of November, as part of the Waste/d Pavilion 3.

We welcome participants interested in transdisciplinary theoretical approach, sound studies in artistic research and theory, popular culture, live experience, and the creation of hybrid artistic approaches based on research as well as the development of relevant methodologies, keen on participating in reading groups, curious about forms and communities of listening, theory otherwise, popular culture ανδ storytelling. Sound engineering skills are not a prerequisite.

Starting from the DJ LEctue methodology, participants are invited to re-examine the passive lecture format and readapt the ideas of the seminar and the remix as prompts to ruse otherwise the intellectual and practical ways of a study group. In short, they are called to consider what has been epistemologically, theoretically or artistically deemed as ‘invalid’, ‘a-formal’ or ‘uncategorized’ through means of expanded post-production. In the in between of a conference room and a concert hall – where knowledge moves between sound and its descriptions – participants will collectively explore the limits of sampling and mixing otherwise, in order to compose or perform a collective and uncommon remix.

Theory in the Remix (2022) draws on: practices and literature in the periphery of sound studies, sonic & theory fictions as well as the form of audio essay as essential forms of rusing sonic narratives, feminist practices related to listening and their relevant citational practices, but also critical approaches on consciousness-raising and its acoustic dimension. At the same time, it wishes to broaden contemporary yet heterogenous perspectives related to DJing, advocating it as a multimodal prompt for hybriduous art research that challenges issues of authorship and knowledge production in their implicit social space.

Every workshop will last 2 hours. All workshops are free.
Submit a short letter of interest (max. 200 words) related to the proposed theme by October 15th, 2022, at [email protected]
There will be a limited number of participants and we operate on a first come first served basis.

* Part of the seminars will be recorded.

The workshop and the work of Chara Stergiou is part of the 3rd episode of “Wasted Pavilion”. Results of the workshop will be shared in a live lecture-performance.

The programme ‘Waste/d Pavilion’ is part of the chapter “Coalition of the Care-full”, an endeavour of the “European Pavilion”. Launched by the Amsterdam-based European Cultural Foundation and developed in partnership with the Camargo Foundation, the Kultura Nova Foundation, and Fondazione CRT, The European Pavilion is an initiative that supports and promotes artistic projects which imagine desirable and sustainable futures for Europe and which bring Europe closer to its communities and their realities. In the course of 2021, seven arts and cultural organisations have joined this exciting new initiative: ARNA (Sweden), Brunnenpassage (Austria), INIVA (London), OGR Torino (Italy), State of Concept (Greece), Studio Rizoma (Italy) and L’Internationale (Ljublana, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain and Poland).

Theory in the Remix
20, 27 October & 3, 10 November, 16:30-18:30
State of Concept Athens

Open Call

*Chara Stergiou is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow (2020) in visual arts