Pan, Sonia Fernández, author.

The Tale and The Tongue : Radical Listening.

[Place of publication not identified] : FHNW HGK, 2021.

1 online resource.

Promise No Promises! ; 49

"Radical Listening is the sixth episode that follows a conversation with Ericka Florez. When describing Ericka's work, several terms appear: curator, artist, performer, writer, researcher, early childhood educator... This multiplicity of terms, which refer both to practices in process and to established roles, also indicates an overflow in words. A word that would be important to add to this list is the notion of «in-betweenness»: the ability to be in two places at the same time but without being fully in either one of them. Ericka's project Un hechizo en el espacio [A spell in the space] gave the opportunity to start in a concrete and very important place for her: the city of Cali in Colombia, where several artists worked on what she defines as «un terror de tierra caliente» [hot-earth terror]. The reality of Cali, marked by a subtle and persistent fatality, makes light converge with gloom within its mythologies and practices of excess. As Ericka herself writes in a text with visual shines and shadows, in Cali «there is something that is about to arrive but never arrives». There is a suspension of expectations and social promises which is joined by the suspension of time during the exuberant hours of dancing and partying. In her danceable lecture Sobredosis de amor [Love Overdose], Ericka Florez analyses the narrative structure of «salsa rosa» and its links with drug dealing. The logic of self-destructive excess is also present in the music, where the political strength of classic salsa rhythms is softened by the love lyrics of salsa rosa songs..."-- provided by distributor.

Performance art.
Manœuvre artistique.

Interviews.
Podcasts.

Florez, Ericka, contributor.
Francke, Anna, contributor.
Handberg, Chris, contributor.
Hunziker, Esther, contributor.
McEvoy, Stephen, musician.
Pavlović, Kristina, contributor.
Ritzmann, Marion, researcher.
Schoch, Steven, contributor.
Sigl, Konrad, contributor.
Wilke, Alice, researcher.
Z'Brun, Vital, contributor.
Zieser, Elena, contributor.
Library Stack, distributor.
Library Stack.