Seminar 4: 14 - 16 April 2026

Day 1 COOP, 14 April

Morning            check-in and warm-up with Angelo

Afternoon         presentation by and workshop with Anik Fournier

Evening            evening programme

Day 2 COOP, 15 April

Morning            warm-up with Angelo

Afternoon         group conversation / working on summit

Evening            evening programme

Day 3 COOP, 16 April

Morning            warm-up with Angelo

Afternoon         group conversation / working on summit

Seminar 3: 9 - 11 March 2026

Day 1 COOP, 9 March

Morning            check-in and warm-up with Angelo

Afternoon         workshop with Pascale Gatzen

Evening            evening programme

Day 2 COOP, 10 March

Morning            warm-up with Angelo

Afternoon         workshop with Pascale Gatzen

Evening            20-22 evening programme

Day 3 COOP, 11 March

Morning            warm-up with Angelo 

Afternoon         group conversation / work on summit

Seminar 2: 21 - 23 January 2026

Dear all,

For our upcoming gathering we would like to propose to further deepen and expand our warm-up practice, for which Angelo has made a start for a score (see attachment), and to exercise this collection of movements each start of the day. 

Also, we would like to use the coming gathering to nourish ourselves with exploring ‘bodies of sound’ through reading and discussing a selection of texts from the eponymous book edited by Irene Revell. In the attachment you’ll find a pdf with the texts. It is quite a long list, but it contains a diverse and rich range of inspiring, timely, and sometimes intense considerations of sound. It would be great if you could try to have read them before we meet so we all can engage in sharing reflections. 

In tandem with the interview ‘Tuning in to the Music of the World’, that is part of the selection, we would like to propose to watch Trinh T. Minh-Ha’s film ‘Forgetting Vietnam’ during our fist evening. The second evening we could dedicate to another listening session. 

Additionally, we would like to share with you two texts that we think connect to topics that came up in our last gathering regarding the body-in-relation, and also ‘prepare’ us in a way for our stay at the Curonian Spit as we hope to spend time meandering between the lagoon and the sea, tuning in to the many ‘bodies of sound’ we’ll encounter there. 

Looking forward to spending time in Nida,

Angelo and Frederique

>> Score Angelo 

>> ‘Bodies of Sound. Becoming a Feminist Ear’, Irene Revell & Sarah Shin (ed.) Excerpts:

• Introduction
• Sonic Strategies in the Palestinian Struggle, Christina Hazboun / Radio Alhara
• The Sound of Temperature Rising, Christine Sun Kim
• ‘Our Voices Reached the Sky’: Sonic Memories of the Armenian Genocide, Gascia Ouzounian
• Turning into the Quantum: A Vibrational Exchange Between Karen Barad and Black Quantum Futurism (Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa)
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Kite in Conversation
• Statement Lindsay Cooper 
• Collective Listening or Listening and Collectivity, Lucia Farinati and Claudia Firth
• Topography of Sound: Expression to Live, Maria Chavez
• Tuning in to the Music of the World, Trinh T. Minh-Ha interviewed by Stoffel Debuysere
• Sharing the Problem of Listening, Roy Claire Potter

>> Emily A. Jones and Lenart Skof, ‘Breathing with Luce Irigary’, part 5 Conclusion, To Begin with Breathing Anew, pp. 217-226

>> Baptiste Morizot, ‘Ways of Being Alive’ – the introduction.pp. 1-24 

DAY 1, WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 2026

Morning (10:30 – 13:00)

Soft landing and warm-up

Discussing text-selection Bodies of Sound

Afternoon (14:00 – 19:00)

Walk

Discussing texts Morizot & Irigaray

Evening (20:00 – 22:00) 

Watching/listening film Trinh T. Minh-Ha

DAY 2, THURSDAY 22 JANUARY 2026

Morning (10:30 – 13:00)

Warm-up & Walk

Afternoon (14:00 – 19:00)

Work on assignment

Evening (20:00 – 22:00) 

Listening session

DAY 3, FRIDAY 23 JANUARY 2026

Morning (10:30 – 13:00)

Warm-up & Walk

Work on assignment

Afternoon (14:00 – 19:00)

Presenting assignment to each other

Recap, discuss next gathering

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)