The three podcasts that make up Sonic Investigations of the Infra-Commons are fruit of a workshop led by Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson and Giulia Crisci which took place in June 2021 as part of the Summer Academy of the National Theatre of Mannheim (Germany), conceived and accompanied by Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs and Laura Strack.
The inspiration for the workshop was to revisit, in the light of the ongoing pandemic, Félix Guattari's idea for a science-fiction film, "A Love of UIQ", involving an infra-quark particle that begins to spread virally, causing disturbances and mutations in society and the natural world, and affecting both living beings and machines.
Experimenting with speculative narration, reciprocal maieutics, languages, sound, rhythm and affect, we tried to imagine intensive new gestures and collective ways of re-appropriating time, care and autonomy.
Three groups worked together to reimagine this infinitely small particle in terms of a contagion that might have beneficial and potentially healing properties and to produce a podcast presenting the ideas, sounds and recordings they came up with in whatever form they wished.

PODCAST 2 - Speed Philosophy
Conceived and produced by Aria Baghestani, Rabia Çalışkan, Amelie Herrmann, Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs, Joana Wardenga and Nicolas Sidiropolus.

Six people are sitting around a table. They ask each other basic questions about contemporary life: connectedness to time and nature, self understanding, motivations in life, the meaning of touch… Following these interests, the interweaving one-to-one conversations become an exploration of our common fragilities. Can we turn into a forest?
Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs

Series introduction: Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni
Music: Graeme Thomson

Many thanks to Laura Strack, Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs and the National Theatre of Mannheim (Schillertage Festival).