Voice Notes: Creativity, Technology and Exile in Nottingham and Slemani UNESCO Cities of Literature

“语音笔记”是一个创造性的写作和声音艺术的倡议工作与流离失所的社区在诺丁汉和斯莱马尼在库尔德斯坦。在我的AHRC资助的“交叉线：文学和电话”项目的基础上，“语音笔记”吸引了国际观众对移动的技术，文学交流和被迫移民的原创研究，并利用创新的方法与广泛的文化组织进行电话知识交流。通过教科文组织创意城市网络支持的跨国文化交流活动，该项目将共同创建互动表演和展览、移动的应用程序、在线声音档案、共同编辑的诗歌小册子和工具包。通过这些活动和产出，它将使难民社区、非政府组织、文化合作伙伴、教育工作者、艺术家、活动家和公众成员对日常技术采取创造性的办法，形成对伦理网络、跨国交流和跨界交谈和倾听的可能性的新思维方式。该项目为跨国参与和赋予代表性不足的声音提供了新的机会，将涉及与难民艺术组织Compass Collective合作举办的一系列写作和口语研讨会。为支持诺丁汉和斯莱马尼的流离失所者社区，这些讲习班将探讨语音传输以及电话技术在导航和交流流亡经历方面的可能性和局限性。将“跨越国界的呼唤”（“跨越界限”项目的一部分）期间开发的原始方法加以扩展，将邀请年轻难民、寻求庇护者和境内流离失所者在电话上撰写、表演和录制他们的贡献，从而共同创建一个由经历过被迫流离失所的人留下或为他们留下的多语种“语音笔记”集。这些语音笔记将构成互动表演和展览的基础，由著名的库尔德-瑞典作曲家哈迪库尔达制作，将在诺丁汉和斯莱马尼举行。这些活动将利用一个定向音棒，对观众的移动做出反应，使参观者能够通过在展览中移动和接听交叉电话来体验和促进项目的塑造。公众也将有机会留下自己的声音笔记，以回应该项目;一个温和的反应选择将反过来输入到动态和不断发展的电话音景。此外，语音笔记将通过互动式移动的应用程序和我们项目网站上的声音档案在线共享，选定的语音笔记将构成与一位难民作家合作编写的共同编辑的诗歌小册子的基础，并附带一个与Compass Collective合作制作的工具包，通过Counterpoints Arts和教科文组织创意城市网络传播。该项目是与一些国际文化组织、非政府组织和艺术家共同设计的，包括Compass Collective、Counterpoints Arts、Hardi Kurda、New Art Exchange、Refugee Roots、诺丁汉和Slemani教科文组织文学城和STEP。通过参与性艺术和协作交流，开发与Compass Collective在“跨境呼叫”期间建立的方法，并向更广泛的国际受众传播日常电信技术创新方法的潜力，以促进创造性的自我表达、文学艺术、公民对话和跨文化交流，该项目将大大促进对移徙、文学和电话技术新发展之间关系的思考方式。

'Voice Notes' is a creative writing and sound arts initiative working with displaced communities in Nottingham and Slemani in Iraqi-Kurdistan. Building on my AHRC-funded 'Crossed Lines: Literature and Telephony' project, 'Voice Notes' engages international audiences with original research on the mobile technologies, literary communication and forced migration, and facilitates new pathways for knowledge exchange using innovative approaches to the telephone with a broad range of cultural organisations. Enabling emerging voices through transnational cultural exchange activities supported by the UNESCO Creative Cities network, the project will result in the co-creation of an interactive performance and exhibition, a mobile app, an online sound archive, a co-edited pamphlet of poetry, and a toolkit. Through these activities and outputs, it will engage refugee communities, NGOs, cultural partners, educators, artists, activists and members of the public with creative approaches to everyday technologies, shaping new ways of thinking about ethical networks, transnational communication, and the possibilities of talking and listening across borders. Offering new opportunities for transnational engagement and empowering under-represented voices, the project will involve a series of writing and spoken word workshops delivered in collaboration with refugee arts organisation Compass Collective. Supporting displaced communities in Nottingham and Slemani, these workshops will explore the transmission of the voice and the possibilities and limitations of telephone technologies in navigating and communicating experiences of exile. Extending the original methodologies developed during 'Calling Across Borders' (part of the 'Crossed Lines' project), young refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons will be invited to compose, perform and record their contributions on the phone, resulting in the co-creation of a multilingual collection of 'voice notes' left by and for people who have experienced forced displacement. These voice notes will form the basis of interactive performances and exhibitions produced by acclaimed Kurdish-Swedish composer Hardi Kurda to be held in Nottingham and Slemani. The events will make use of a directional sound bar that responds to the movements of audience members, enabling visitors to experience and contribute to the shaping of the project by moving through the exhibition and tapping into intersecting telephone calls. Members of the public will also have the opportunity to leave their own voice notes in response to the project; a selection of moderated responses will in turn feed into the dynamic and evolving telephone soundscape. Furthermore, the voice notes will be shared online through an interactive mobile app and sound archive on our project website, and selected voice notes will form the basis of a co-edited pamphlet of poetry developed in partnership with a refugee writer, with an accompanying toolkit produced in collaboration with Compass Collective and disseminated through Counterpoints Arts and the UNESCO Creative Cities network. This project has been co-designed with a number of international cultural organisations, NGOs and artists including Compass Collective, Counterpoints Arts, Hardi Kurda, New Art Exchange, Refugee Roots, Nottingham and Slemani UNESCO Cities of Literature and STEP. Developing the methodologies established with Compass Collective during 'Calling Across Borders' through participatory arts and collaborative exchange, and disseminating to a wider international audience the potential for innovative approaches to everyday telecommunication technologies to facilitate creative self-expression, the literary arts, civic dialogue, and cross-cultural communication, the project will significantly advance ways of thinking about the relationship between migration, literature and new developments in telephone technologies.