Queer Auralities: infrastructure, performativity, ontology
Abstract
This article introduces the concept of queer aurality as a way to examine the forms of ontological ambiguity that shape the experiences of performers and dancers within the traditional music scene in Asturias. The notion allows for the development of certain potentialities linked to two complementary fields of inquiry: the cultivation of a participatory sensitivity in Asturian dance, and the affirmation of a queer politics associated with that same sensibility. Queer aurality is proposed as a tool to describe how a politics of altering conditions of audibility unfolds in practice as a form of micropolitical intervention. Drawing on ethnographic research with the post-Francoist Asturian revitalization movement, the article contributes to current debates around the notion of the «queer ear» (Lee, 2023), aiming to extend its scope by introducing an infrastructural and ontological dimension to queer politics of audibility. The text concludes by transferring this framework to the realm of the sonic image, asking what kind of ontology of the image might account for the imaginaries activated by participatory traditional dance in a world shaped by the rise of the «post-cinematic» (Shaviro, 2023) regime of audiovisual production.
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