The neologism ''Sonophagia' (or Sound Cannibalism) serves as a guiding principle for the various aesthetic and theoretical contributions to this event, drawing on sound studies, cultural theory, and postcolonial aesthetics. The event explores anthropophagy in its speculative reciprocity. Anthropophagy extends across various fields, covering phenomena in biology such as symbiogenesis, where cells consume other cells to develop; in linguistics or AI, when languages or models consume each other, and encompasses various forms of artistic and cultural appropriation inspired by Oswald de Andrade’s anthropophagic manifesto. For example, the event explores how microbes feed on certain human sound frequencies and how language parasites bring about becoming spoken. It departs from indigenous cosmologies, where the states of the Other—the victim—are consumed to assimilate the signs of its alterity. In these cosmologies, killing and singing are interpreted as similar practices to become the Other through sung or spoken words, and the term used for the Other or the enemy is “future music.” The singer or speaker understands himself as a subject at the moment in which he declares his uniqueness by hearing himself through the voice of the Other, de-hierarchizing the coexistence of different species.

Contributors:

 Jens Hauser (Cultural Theorist, Moderator, BioMedia),

Ana Maria Ochoa (Prof., Tulane University, Acoustic Multinaturalism) 

Melanie Strasser (Cultural Theorist, Vienna University, Tupi or not Tupi)

Tristam Vivian Adams (Cultural Theorist, Vocal Semiocapitalism)

Matthias Lewy (Prof., Basel University, Indigenous Sonorism)

Sean Braune (Cultural Theorist, Language Parasites)

Theresa Schubert (Artist, ‚mEat Me‘),

Klaus Spiess (Prof., Vienna Medical University)

Svenja Kratz (Artist, University of Tasmania, ‘Bone Breath‘),

Emanuel Gollob (Artist, Eating Caruso) 

Supplementary Infos:

https://ail.angewandte.at/program/lasertalk_24

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