“To create the conditions for listening: sound stories as research method” with Gabriele Woolever, and with opening presentation by Christina Cook & Graham Lea
Friday, January 28th2pm-4pmLocation: Online via ZoomTo register for this event you need to join the Research Creation Working Group, to do so, please contact Anne Murphy: Anne.Murphy@ubc.ca
[Abstract]
Sound and listening are manifestations of already interdependent relationships, both materially and politically. As such, they are rich site-processes for interventions in research itself and how research might be shared in and beyond academic contexts. In this workshop, we’ll start with these concepts and explore their practical engagement in my thesis project on creating sound stories about temporary foreign workers in British Columbia.
We’ll discuss:
Interview methods – unsettling scripts and listening for the ear
Tech for sound research
Crafting a narrative out of interviews
Writing for the ear (podcast narratives)
Challenges and opportunities (many of each!)
[Gabriele’s Bio]
I’m preoccupied with sound and sanctuary – two important elements of my research with temporary foreign workers in British Columbia. I’m working with Dr. Gerry Pratt and members of the Migrant Workers’ Centre in Vancouver to create audio stories based on their experiences within and beyond the reach of the state’s administration of their lives. How can audio stories help create a kind of fugitive sanctuary and alternate public presence for those excluded from state belonging? How can this practice both describe and cultivate a hospitality that disrupts dominant narratives of the migrant other? Underpinning these questions are my interests in geographies of encounter, abolition futures, and feminist and creative methodologies. Prior to enrolling in UBC Geography’s master’s program in 2019, I work for several years in photography and arts administration, and completed a bachelor’s degree in international studies at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, USA).
