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When there’s nothing left to say

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...

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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: the other rooms, yoko ono, 1952, 1964, 2003, artist, biennale, birds, bodies, east, emotion, emptiness, feel, forever, grapefruit | Leave A Comment »

The opinion

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

During these times of reflection and change caused by the global crisis we are all experiencing, I find the topic of listening to be extremely relevant. My approach is to see what can be learned from it, starting with the basic theories of modern management. I think this is essential, if we are to deal with the current economic situation. For mana...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ability, approval, communicating, company, crisis, customers, economic situation, essential, finance, global, identify, interpret, lifestyles, listen, listening | Leave A Comment »

Travelling companion

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

Sometimes I am asked to help other people to improve their listening skills. My profession exposes me to the risk of thinking of listening mainly as a subjective ability, something that can be trained, partly linked to personal predisposition. But when I actually listen, and when listening becomes a tool necessary for a job in which you approach...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: approach, circumstances, claudio ondoli, cohesion, colourful, companion, company, fascinating, geography, history, intention, job, knowledge, landscapes, life | Leave A Comment »

I want to be like the wind

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

Is the “listening” aspect a feature of your work as an architect? First of all I’d like to give an example. Italo Calvino, on the subject of hearing (or listening), told a story that for me is extremely significant. There was a powerful man who once became king. From that time on, he decided not to move from his throne in case someone physi...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: demagogic, desire, hearing, italo calvino, king, listening, massimiliano fuksas, natural, on the street, people, pleasure, shapes, story, symbolic, throne | Leave A Comment »

Blinding the ears

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

In front of a cup of coffee with Andrea Bellini The theme of this edition of illywords is “La cultura dell’ascolto” (or “the Culture of Listening”). Did this lead to the idea of choosing “Accecare l’ascolto” (“Blocking the ears”) as the title for the section on theatre and the role of theatrical performance in the modern art...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, andrea bellini, artissima, biennal, bourgeois, carmelo bene, creativity, dadaist, ears, entertainer, exhibitions, framework, futuristic, involved, john cage | Leave A Comment »