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Kimberly Alidio on writing poetry while listening to experimental music.

Presented with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity at the Italian Ministry of Culture, Due qui / To Hear is the project for the Italian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.

I met Kimberly Alidio in the summer of 2021, as a student in their Kundiman workshop, Documentary Poetics: Archive and Counter-Lyric. During our last session, we had been reflecting on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s interview in Jacket2, in which she talks about poetry becoming entropic, losing energy, and finding new form. My notes from this conversation include: “You go where the energy is.”

Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U. is a sci-fi audio novel in three episodes with video subtitles; written and directed by ALMARE, it is curated by Radio Papesse, promoted in collaboration with Timespan and produced thanks to the support of the Italian Council, a program to promote Italian art by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

An interesting event is happening in the realm of sound artworks. It is called The Listening Biennial (TLB) and it’s dubbed “an art and research initiative focusing on questions of listening”. The second edition of TLB opened in early July 2023 (the first one happened in 2021) with an exhibit…