2025
I Love Listening to Music and Imagining Things Happening
KRAMÁR, Richie LuxBasic information
Original name
I Love Listening to Music and Imagining Things Happening
Name in Czech
Miluji poslouchat hudbu a představovat si, že se dějí věci
Authors
Edition
VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, Stockholm, Švédsko, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), 2025, 2003-024X
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Field of Study
60403 Performing arts studies
Country of publisher
Sweden
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Marked to be transferred to RIV
Yes
Organization unit
Theatre Faculty
Keywords in English
Transgender studies; voice studies; artistic research; opera; queer dramaturgy; failure; prompting; monstrosity; embodiment; listening; poetics
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 19/3/2026 11:19, Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.
Abstract
In the original language
This exposition explores the paradox of rendering visible a research that seeks to remain unseen. It examines concealment, obfuscation, and selective disclosure as strategies of resistance and protection, questioning the ethics and politics of visibility in academic and artistic inquiry. Absence, silence, and ambiguity are explored as ways of invoking presence, challenging dominant paradigms of transparency and access, and proposing alternative modes of engaging with hidden or fugitive research. Central to this inquiry is the operatic prompter, an unseen presence that feeds lines to the performer, ensuring continuity while remaining hidden. The prompter’s role complicates the link between knowledge and articulation, shaping the performance without claiming authorship. Like other fugitive voices in history, the prompter embodies a marginal agency, whispering from the wings.