Valeria Luiselli
Acoustic Shadows
workshop
Settembre 12 | 10:00 am — 1:00 pm
Teatro India
The workshop is aimed at people who identify as women, trans and non-binary people, and, in particular, people with a diasporic background.
In Valeria Luiselli’s writing, sound is one of the primary tools used to evoke political issues, historical dimensions, and ecological themes akin to a complex biome. The workshop Acoustic Shadows, led by the Mexican-American author, examines the politics of listening and the aesthetics of sound through readings, discursive moments, and listening sessions.
Listening, in its critical and creative dimensions, is summoned as a source of narrative texture and explored as a practice that activates synchronizations, consonances, and dissonances, forms of environmental and political resistance. Luiselli proposes a dialogue with a wide range fields of knowledge, engaging with thoughts and practices of figures such as Anne Carson, Alice Oswald, Svetlana Alexievich, Layli Long Soldier, Fred Moten, Gloria Anzaldúa, Steven Feld, Arlette Farge, and the Ultra-red International Sound Collective.
Valeria Luiselli will also be present at Short Theatre 2024 with the lecture Sometimes and Across.
The Short Theatre 2024 workshops are free of charge. To participate, you are required to register by sending an e-mail to shorttheatrefestival@gmail.com, indicating in the subject line the title of the workshop and in the body your name, surname, telephone number and a short introduction. Reservations will be accepted subject to availability.
Deadline for registration: 28 August
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa and India. Writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends (An Essay in Forty Questions). Her most recent novel, Lost Children Archive was an international critical and commercial success. It was a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2019, won the Rathbone Folio Prize 2020, the Dublin Award 2021, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Booker Prize 2019 among others. In 2019 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for “challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others.” Her work is published in more than thirty languages. She is a professor at Bard College.
