Seminar 1: 25 - 27 November 2025

Welcome to our COOP: we are very much looking forward to working together! We hope this day-to-day overview finds you well and we want to thank you all for your motivations that we have been reading with pleasure and appreciation.
 
For the upcoming confluence, we will make a start with our rhythm of starting the day with the warm-up led by Angelo. Secondly, we would like to dedicate a solid portion of our time together presenting and discussing your work. We propose that each student gets fifteen minutes for presenting and to reserve an equal fifteen minutes for a conversation afterwards. To be able to follow each other’s trajectories, we would like to encourage you to organize your presentation around a facet of your work that you would like to put your attention to the coming months and would like to elaborate on. The third day will be dedicated to an assignment (that Angelo will explain on day two) and we will conclude our first confluence with a group conversation and - reflection. For the evenings we want to propose to have listening sessions, composed by contributions of half the group per evening.
 
As an undercurrent, we would like to propose to build together a collection of references, texts and other materials, that can inspire and guide us in developing our group work. Angelo and I have made a start with the following suggested readings, for which our interest in breathing and the interval have been incentives (amongst others), including the text by Adriana Caverrero as a bridge from the previous COOP to our current one. We don’t expect you to have read them all before our gathering, just wander through and explore in your own tempo.
 

Day 1, 25 November 2025

Morning (10:30 – 13:00)

Soft landing and warm up

Presenting work to each other

Afternoon (14:00 – 19:00)

Presenting work to each other

Evening (20:00 – 22:00) 

Listening session

Day 2, 26 November 2025

Morning (10:30 – 13:00)

Warm up

Presenting work to each other

Afternoon (14:00 – 19:00)

Walk

Presenting work to each other

Introduction to Angelo’s assignment & working on assignment

Evening (20:00 – 22:00) 

Listening session

Day 3, 27 November 2025

Morning (10:30 – 13:00)

Warm up

Working on assignment

Afternoon (14:00 – 19:00)

Working on assignment

Presenting assignment to each other

Conversation

REFERENCES 

# Adriana Cavarero, ‘For More Than One Voice. Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression’, Stanford University Press (2005), mainly chapters 1.3, 1.4 & 1.7: ‘When Thinking Was Done with the Lungs …’

# Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, ‘Through Vegetal Being. Two Philosophical Perspectives’, Columbia University Press New York (2016)

# Rebecca Hill, ‘The Interval: Relation and Becoming in Irigaray, Aristotle, and Bergson’, Fordham University Press (2012)

# Jules Gill-Peterson, ‘The Miseducation of a French Feminist’, in Eflux Journal (2021)

# Édouard Glissant, ‘Poetics of Relation’, trans. Betsy Wing Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1997)

# Amelia Groom, “In the Arms of the Sea: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore at the Water’s Edge,” in ‘Ten Thousand Suns. Catalogue accompanying the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024)

# Irene Revell and Sarah Shin, ‘Bodies of Sound. Becoming a Feminist Ear’, Silver Press (2024)

# Vaim Sarv with Anne Turnpu. Andreas Kalkun and Janika Oras, ‘Radical Runosong. Decolonising Self and Tradition’, OPA! Publising (2025)