SCHOOL FOR DESIGNING A SOCIETY: MARK ENSLIN
EL 23 DE FEBRERO, DEL GESUNDHEIT INSTITUTE, DEL PROGRAMA
SCHOOL FOR DESIGNING A SOCIETY
MARK ENSLIN
Composer, Performer, Actor, Activist, Organizer, Teacher He studied music at Webster College and has a doctorate in music composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied primarily with Herbert Brun. Also at UIUC, Enslin taught in Unit One, a living/learning program–such courses as Music in Protest and the Art of Acting as Audience–and in the Campus Honors Program with the Performers Workshop Ensemble. As an actor he has had lead roles in Pirandello’s The Vice and Brecht’s Puntilla. Enslin has held teaching residencies at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and the Youth Factory for Alternative Culture in Seoul, South Korea.
Summarize of the Conference:
The human activity of listening is presented as a deliberate attempt to address persistent problems with hearing and being heard: inability, unwillingness, ambiguity, displacement. Listening explicitly occurs in the context of conversation. Experimental composition invites experiments in listening and thus necessarily takes part in conversation as well. Exerpts from a music-theater composition called Unentitled are used to illustrate some of the difficulties of listening, particularly in situations of social inequality.