A Sound of Teaching with Bethany Ides—The corporeal, non-corporeal and architectural relationships in teaching. The possibility of play, being many roles, and being inhospitable in and out of the classroom (on and off zoom). Exercise: renaming the zones of the place you are in.

Joined by Bethany Ides

Bethany Ides is a Rondout Valley-based writer, artist, teacher, theater-maker, organizer, & Co-Director of DOORS UNLIMITED, which is a generative structure for investigative operatics & speculative folklife. Her performative propositions have been hosted by Harbourfront Centre, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn Museum, Fragmental Museum, Mandragoras Art Space, Tritriangle, FADO Performance Art Centre, the Prattsville Art Center, SenseLab, CounterPULSE, Dixon Place, Sunview Luncheonette, Worksound Gallery, St Marks Poetry Project, & digital space subleased by Facebook/Instagram to BOMB magazine. Her most recent poetry, scripts, critical-theoretical essays, & collaborative projects have appeared in The Candidate Journal: Psychoanalytic Current, C Magazine, Ear | Wave | Event, Temporary Art Review, Feminist Temporalities, Orange Mercury, and fields magazine. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Humanities & Media Studies at Pratt Institute where she teaches courses on things like pleasure, play, & pedagogy.

First broadcast on Montez Press Radio as Tongue and Cheek- Ep27: A Sound of Teaching—with Bethany Ides - Saturday, March 27th, 2021 11 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

(Socialise)

A radio series of proprioceptive exercises, interviews about practices of communication, and archival sound. A routine for warming up our means of communication. Presented monthly as a combination of live and prerecorded sessions.

Lend me your ears!
-- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the channel works… Dorothy Parker caught eloquent examples: "'Well!' the young man said. 'Well!' she said. 'Well, here we are' he said. 'Here we are' she said, 'Aren't we?' 'I should say we were' he said, 'Eeyop! Here we are.' 'Well!' she said. 'Well!' he said, 'well.' "
-- Roman Jakobson, “Linguistics and Poetics”

To reach an arm out of one’s mouth, peek through one’s ear, and speak out of one’s eye. Communication happens by any means possible. It is the different ways bodies extend themselves, as limbs that bridge things—reaching out, stretching and sometimes touching, with a light tap, “Marco!”

How we voice, how we gesture, how we manner, how we empathize.
Exercises to find all ways of thinking of language, and to exercise them as their own paths of communication.

To empathize over radio. Invite to do the same—feel, mimic, echo. “Polo”
The sound of leading, of following, of teaching speaking.
And learning to make a body of a limb.

Tongue and Cheek was first developed and aired on Montez Press Radio beginning in the summer of 2018. Montez Press Radio is an experimental radio station and commissioning platform for unexpected works from artists and other creative voices. MPR continues to air new episodes of Tongue and Cheek during its monthly live broadcast at 46 Canal St in Chinatown, New York.