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I Love Listening to Music and Imagining Things Happening

KRAMÁR, Richie Lux

Basic 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

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

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.