Abstract
Dorothea Schürch relocates her research project ‘Écoute élargie’ to République Géniale as she feels and listens her way into Beuys monologue "Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Nee Nee" from 1968. After re-modulating the "Ja"/"Yes" in August on the occasion of the series “Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts – named after a seminal book by Robert Filliou – and the "Nee"/"No" in mid-October, she is now bringing together Beuys' "Yes" and "No" on the occasion of the PANCH Symposium “Archives of the Ephemeral”.
The research project ‘Écoute élargie’ is dedicated to the empty voice, which incorporates all aspects of the voice beyond language. Contrary to conventional musicological research, where structural aspects are prevalent, expanded hearing – so the translation of the term écoute élargie – allows for extra-musical connotations. By means of performative transcription (not to be confused with re-enactment), this gives rise to a re-evaluation of the avant-garde.