NEXT Workshop: Yuri Tuma ✴ The Way We Sound: An Exercise on Queer Listening
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👁️🌀 𝑌𝑢𝑟𝑖 𝑇𝑢𝑚𝑎 — 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑦 𝑊𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑: 𝐴𝑛 𝐸𝑥𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 🌀👁️
What does the way we sound reveal about us? And how can listening become a form of resistance? 🦻
Gender norms are often deeply intertwined with worldviews that place humans above other forms of life. This hierarchy is also reflected in the sounds that help shape and reinforce these norms. The concept of “sonic gendering” – the construction of gender through sound – has therefore become an important critical tool in contemporary thought.
In a culture saturated with images, attentive listening becomes a queer practice of resistance. Bringing queer ecologies into dialogue with sound ecologies allows us to perceive the world as a network of interconnected relationships, where boundaries between human and more-than-human, natural and cultural, masculine and feminine, visible and audible begin to dissolve.
𖤐 WHAT WILL WE DO? 𖤐
Over the course of this three-hour workshop, we will explore vocal dynamics, possibilities for interspecies communication, listening scores and reflective writing exercises. Through these practices, we will investigate the extent to which our lived experience is shaped by the way we sound.
The workshop is free of charge, will be held in English and is part of the NEXT Symposium: LISTENING TO POST-NATURE.
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🦇 WHEN & WHERE 🦇
📅 Friday, 27 November 2026 · 15:00–18:00 CET
📍 tranzit.sk
✴️ Limited capacity: 15 participants: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8xtin32la28PYTLhtqK0ZmQI3mUNwTz5fO5IlQ8em5yXqow/viewform
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🌀 YURI TUMA 🌀
Yuri Tuma is a Brazilian artist, researcher and curator based in Madrid. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Postnatural Studies (IPS), an educational platform where he contributes to shaping its academic and artistic programme. His work focuses on contemporary narratives of queer ecology and sound ecology, drawing on collective practices, active listening, sound art, installation and performance.
The Institute for Postnatural Studies was founded in early 2020 as a platform for critical thinking, collaboration and exchange between people working across art, research, curatorial practice and theory, with a shared interest in the complexities of the ecological crisis. At IPS, Yuri coordinates workshops and academic programmes exploring interspecies kinship, queer ecology and sound studies.
He has contributed to educational and mediation programmes at institutions including Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Matadero Madrid, HEAD Genève, Institute Art Gender Nature, Berlinale, Fundación Mar Adentro and School of Commons.
At IPS, he is also involved in Cthulhu Books, a publishing initiative that uses academic and artistic research to highlight the political potential of imagining new worlds and possible futures for our planet.
What does the way we sound reveal about us? And how can listening become a form of resistance? 🦻
Gender norms are often deeply intertwined with worldviews that place humans above other forms of life. This hierarchy is also reflected in the sounds that help shape and reinforce these norms. The concept of “sonic gendering” – the construction of gender through sound – has therefore become an important critical tool in contemporary thought.
In a culture saturated with images, attentive listening becomes a queer practice of resistance. Bringing queer ecologies into dialogue with sound ecologies allows us to perceive the world as a network of interconnected relationships, where boundaries between human and more-than-human, natural and cultural, masculine and feminine, visible and audible begin to dissolve.
𖤐 WHAT WILL WE DO? 𖤐
Over the course of this three-hour workshop, we will explore vocal dynamics, possibilities for interspecies communication, listening scores and reflective writing exercises. Through these practices, we will investigate the extent to which our lived experience is shaped by the way we sound.
The workshop is free of charge, will be held in English and is part of the NEXT Symposium: LISTENING TO POST-NATURE.
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🦇 WHEN & WHERE 🦇
📅 Friday, 27 November 2026 · 15:00–18:00 CET
📍 tranzit.sk
✴️ Limited capacity: 15 participants: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8xtin32la28PYTLhtqK0ZmQI3mUNwTz5fO5IlQ8em5yXqow/viewform
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🌀 YURI TUMA 🌀
Yuri Tuma is a Brazilian artist, researcher and curator based in Madrid. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Postnatural Studies (IPS), an educational platform where he contributes to shaping its academic and artistic programme. His work focuses on contemporary narratives of queer ecology and sound ecology, drawing on collective practices, active listening, sound art, installation and performance.
The Institute for Postnatural Studies was founded in early 2020 as a platform for critical thinking, collaboration and exchange between people working across art, research, curatorial practice and theory, with a shared interest in the complexities of the ecological crisis. At IPS, Yuri coordinates workshops and academic programmes exploring interspecies kinship, queer ecology and sound studies.
He has contributed to educational and mediation programmes at institutions including Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Matadero Madrid, HEAD Genève, Institute Art Gender Nature, Berlinale, Fundación Mar Adentro and School of Commons.
At IPS, he is also involved in Cthulhu Books, a publishing initiative that uses academic and artistic research to highlight the political potential of imagining new worlds and possible futures for our planet.
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tranzit.sk, Beskydská 3134/12, 811 05 Bratislava, Slovensko, Bratislava, Slovakia
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