'What Now? The Politics of Listening' explores the often complex relationship between truth and fiction in relation to interpretative listening, media communication, and acts of testimony, translation and redaction. To what degree are we able to listen to different kinds of intelligences, and how can we incite receptivity? How do we address the fact that the right to listen is relative, and that the right not to listen, or to remain silent, is also a genuine stance? Can we position listening as a political act? And how do we further develop our ability to listen for what is left out, and why? 'What Now?' documents a programme of sound installations, audio works, film screenings and performances that question our ability to 'listen' held under the title The Politics of Listening in the second annual What Now? symposium, organised by Art in General in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, as part of Alignment, the Vera List Center's 2013?2015 curatorial focus theme. Features work by Laurie Jo Reynolds, University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Art and Art History; Mohammad Salemy, The New Centre for Research SPractice, Michigan; Kade L Twist, artist, writer and member of Post-Commodity; Bigert EBergstrom, Iman Issa, Mendi + Keith Obadike, The Order of the Third Bird, and Wato Tsereteli, Founder, Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia. 'What Now? The Politics of Listening' is our first publication of a collaborative series with Art in General. 37 colour and b/w
