an ongoing collective exploration / learning from experiences of togetherness and uncertainty / reflecting on listening
Afra Sonmez
Alexander Meile
Alexandra Paal
Anuk Wurm
Bart van der Heide
Beatrice Catanzaro
Bianca Bauer
Chiara Duchi
Chris Haring
Elnatan Ariel
Eva Leitolf
Ezra Erak
Filippo Fabbrica
Fritzi Hannah Harreck
Gilad Ratman
Hannes Muhr
Hava Langer
Isabel Solveigh Artschwager
Italo Zuffi
Jaskaran Anand
Jianan Qu
Josefina Sundblad
Joss Allen
Julian Michael Mintz
Kaja Boudewijn
Laura-Maria Vahimets
Lea Felicitas Blachfellner
Luisa Pisetta
Luke Baio
Lynn Mayya
Mantas Indriliūnas
Mariona Pujol Miravent
Mark Markin
Marlene Aigner
Maximilian Pellizzari
Michael Lengauer
Michele Cerruti But
Mohammad Numan
Nicolás Rueda Blanco
Nicolò Degiorgis
Paul Robert Sloan
Robert Finster
Robin Gruber
Sanaz Raffii
Stefano Riba
Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen
Sujeong Kim
Theresia Pürmayr
Tim Bongardt
Yotam Dvir
on listening institutions / generations to engage / information technology and agency / ownership over data and spaces / traces of participation / an ethics of practice / redefining the idea of expertise / museums towards social transformation
with Bart van der Heide
29 june 2021 [1]
on impossible questions / healing intimacy against the symptoms of neoliberal capitalism / a language of possession / love as continuous act of forgiveness / language failing in dealing with the process of forgiveness / rehabilitation therapy / creating a problem to provide a solution / depressive realism / artificial intelligence learning from pain / destroying capitalism by answering questions we cannot yet think to ask
with Paul Robert Sloan
22 june 2021
on turning production into a participatory process / the bottom-down discourse on privileged artists / accepting being an outsider / self-censoring / life commitment to human rights / fighting for human interaction and dialogue / books to solve the ethical issue of art distribution
with Nicolò Degiorgis
21 june 2021
on conclusions / how one feels about a process / artistic and personal growth / who can judge an experience / companionship, guidance and honesty / expectations / how to challenge the university system / appreciations
with Jianan Qu
17 june 2021 [r,1,h,e]
on sharing relational practices / human exceptionalism / learning to be affected by the non-human world / de-centralizing the role of humans / activist approach / change as a side effect / plants as collaborators / conspiring with plants / attention economy and unproductivity / practices of un-listening / ecological belonging / artist as outsider / hospitality / bringing art into politics / keeping cutting and replanting trees
with Joss Allen
17 june 2021 [r,1,h]
on just doing what you want to do / useless art / listening as active decision to be passive / interaction vs collectivity / connecting people
with Lea Felicitas Blachfellner
10 june 2021 [r,1,h,e]
on waiters / resistance / non-productive time lost / systems of evaluation / prototyping and establishing instruments and scales to assess collective processes / provocation / reasons for
with Italo Zuffi, a waiter
10 june 2021 [r,1,h,e]
on listening with all the senses / awareness / improvisation on stage
with Luke Baio
09 june 2021
on how a collaborative project adapts to post-pandemic needs / creating a space / sharing what’s urgent / how to feel close through space / giving time for human connections / twisting organizing and participating / a new idea
with Bianca Bauer
08 june 2021 [1]
on defining narrative as violent and political / history as exclusion / partying and art to dismantle narratives / numbers for non-hierarchical communities / 2011 occupy movement and neo-hippyish-socialist-leftist dream / technology as tool for resistance and control / social media’s drawbacks / how to fuck capitalism / a network of little utopian islands / responsibility on the internet / extension of man inside your body
with Gilad Ratman
07 june 2021 [1]
on understanding transformative processes / learning from thermodynamics and Quantum physics / bearers of transformation within a context / a methodology for collective processes of change / how art can change life and society / Co-Creation Methodology / interpreting and framing transformative processes by looking at traces / artist as external observer / artis as activator of collective potential energy / working on being human / ethics by intuition / creativity and love / problem-solving approach / sustainability and resilience / the function of listening / vocations
with Filippo Fabbrica
05 june 2021 [e]
on a conversation about a conversation / non-directionality / possibilities and conditions of a conversation / vibe and vibration / sense and senses / fruitful misunderstandings / translation and transcription / re-constructing an intention / the play of language / hesitation as condition for listening / embracing uncertainty as vulnerability / leaving space to the unknown / listening as an act of giving
with Yotam Dvir
03 june 2021 [e]
on the creative power of listening / listening to god / listening as relational practice / audience engagement / the condition for listening / engaged art practice / proxemics in pandemic times / sound and temperature
with Michele Cerruti But
01 june 2021 [r,1,h,e]
on food sharing / support / care / small efforts to promote cycling
with Hannes Muhr
31 may 2021
on the value of time / learning from the pandemic / crisis and precariousness / family and stability
with Stefano Riba
28 may 2021 [r]
on being hurt and heard / funny bureaucracy / questioning the concept of plagiarism / open source / sharing a process or keeping it secret / diversity and inclusion
with Mark Markin
28 may 2021
on disappearing / negotiating identities / exchangeable roles / group as complex instrument for identity construction / agonistic society / political art / artists as critical symptoms of society / living a choreography of desires / blurring art and life / space over participation / semiophore / art for specialists
with Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen
28 may 2021 [1,h,e]
on the freedom of being heard in pandemic times / social media dynamics / space and place / problematizing participation / small scale democracy / post-opinion exchange / friction and common aim / time to think together / the unexpected outsider / inclusivity
with Maximilian Pellizzari, Isabel Solveigh Artschwager, Chiara Duchi
27 may 2021 [1,e]
on acoustic interruptions / being open to change / here and now / listening mindset / flux and openness in a workflow / played roles of people and care / hermetic communities and spirituality / being together or being productive / an activist approach
with Eva Leitolf
27 may 2021 [r,1,h,e]
on a one month-long dawn / listening for the sake of listening / three manifestations of love / tools to highlight information / screaming listening / semantic satiation / storytelling and manipulation / Jerusalem obsession / repetition / placelessness
with Chiara Duchi, Luisa Pisetta, a waiter
27 may 2021 [r]
on the poetry group / automatic writing / languages and identity / writing together in a room or Zoom / writing exercises / starting a group practice
with Alexandra Paal
24 may 202 [1,h]
on improvisation / loud pause / a twisted practice
with Chris Haring
20 may 2021 [h,e]
on feast as dispositif for collective resistance to productivity, sobriety, capitalism, fascism, consumerism… / the bread concert / food as social tool / bread and intimacy / practicing pleasure / delegated responsibility / fighting power with joy / setting the space / political hedonism / micro-powers and micro-efforts
with Mariona Pujol Miravent
19 may 2021 [r,h]
on self-reflective processes / problematizing empathy / I-other relations / empathic propaganda / an approach for socially engaged art / neglected listening / pedagogical projects
with Beatrice Catanzaro
19 may 2021
on the language of representation / peaceful pioneering / binding lights / wishing for a new language / 4 levels of listening
with Hava Langer
18 may 2021 [1,e]
on providing tools to immigrants / decolonialized democracy / belonging to humanity / living in a commune / equal needs / feeling human / time to reflect together / the old culture of the family
with Mohammad Numan
17 may 2021
on a language for art and life / intensity / listening to the birds at 5:00 am / performance with or without people / artists looking for something
with Mantas Indriliūnas
14 may 2021 [h,e]
on joining a project / 1+1=3 / openness / transcending individuality / spontaneity / ideas for a radio
with Julian Michael Mintz
13 may 2021 [r,1,h]
on a day’s highlight / what is listening
with Robin Gruber, Laura-Maria Vahimets, Theresia Pürmayr, Nicolás Rueda Blanco, Ezra Erak, Anuk Wurm, Sanaz Raffii, Fritzi Hannah Harreck, Robert Finster, Alexander Meile
12 may 2021 [h]
on jam session / unlearning improvisation / repetition as necessity for change / disturbing the melody or atmosphere of the group / music therapy / adjusting your role through listening / challenging music genres / structures of languages
with Theresia Pürmayr
12 may 2021 [h]
on sound carpet / insecurities / shifting attention / connecting through silence / what is silence
with Marlene Aigner
09 may 2021 [h]
on collectivity / purification / body as interface / intimacy / interpreting information / knowledge and energy / intra-acting / semi-permeable membrane / a peacock dancing in the forest / audience / attachment / dropping egos
with Jaskaran Anand
08 may 2021 [1]
on process as work / structuring a space / questioning democracy / forming a collective / individuality and letting go / collective intelligence / structures vs systems / censorship / analysis of an artistic practice
with Josefina Sundblad
04 may 2021 [r,1,e]
on hacking ideas / sharing experiences / electronic textile / DIY
with Afra Sonmez
26 april 2021
on a movement without ‘-ism’ / nonviolent protest / marching together / preaching love / 1+1=1-(-1) / needing to
with Elnatan Ariel
26 april 2021 [1]
on lifting weight / a paper project / family / harmonious and responsibility / different speeds
with Elnatan Ariel
26 april 2021 [1]
on I and we / different approaches to shaping reality / radical subjectivity / surrendering to unstable memories by influencing them together / in between reality and dialogue / collective traces / looking at the world with your own eyes / honesty / agreeing for a we / focusing on the I / dissolving individuality for the common good
with Tim Bongardt
25 april 2021 [h]
on relational art in a nutshell / fertile field / possibilities of space / learning to do things with no practical purpose / art to change normality / checking the possibility of an alternative / what remains in our hands / how to make a living / proving something
with Michael Lengauer, Sujeong Kim
25 april 2021 [r,1,h,e]
on hearing footsteps / sound as violence / sonic memory of trauma / interruptions / sound as religious tool
with Lynn Mayya
23 april 2021 [h]
on how an initial idea forms a space / traces on banana skin
with Marlene Aigner
18 april 2021 [r,1,h,e]
on talking with friends after a long time / drawing a parallel between sonic waves and society / moving towards tangibility / an organism of its own / shifting responsibility and enthusiasm / visions for a project
with Kaja Boudewijn
15 april 2021 [r,1,h,e]
on documentation / keeping traces / destroying traces
with Marlene Aigner
14 april 2021 [e]
on defining a thesis project / sharing for sharing / art as justification / starting from three spaces
with Jianan Qu
14 april 2021 [r,1,h,e]
with Afra Sonmez, Alexander Meile, Alexandra Paal, Anuk Wurm, Bart van der Heide, Beatrice Catanzaro, Bianca Bauer, Chiara Duchi, Chris Haring, Elnatan Ariel, Eva Leitolf, Ezra Erak, Filippo Fabbrica, Fritzi Hannah Harreck, Gilad Ratman, Hannes Muhr, Hava Langer, Isabel Solveigh Artschwager, Italo Zuffi, Jaskaran Anand, Jianan Qu, Josefina Sundblad, Joss Allen, Julian Michael Mintz, Kaja Boudewijn, Laura-Maria Vahimets, Lea Felicitas Blachfellner, Luisa Pisetta, Luke Baio, Lynn Mayya, Mantas Indriliūnas, Mariona Pujol Miravent, Mark Markin, Marlene Aigner, Maximilian Pellizzari, Michael Lengauer, Michele Cerruti But, Mohammad Numan, Nicolás Rueda Blanco, Nicolò Degiorgis, Paul Robert Sloan, Robert Finster, Robin Gruber, Sanaz Raffii, Stefano Riba, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Sujeong Kim, Theresia Pürmayr, Tim Bongardt, Yotam Dvir