Listening to More-Than-Human Voices

Listening to More-Than-Human Voices is the title of my PhD project at the University of Kassel supervised by Prof. Liliana Gómez.

The project is not limited to the academy though and it had many realizations in other contexts.

It started within a community, the Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit in Berlin, where stages of the work have already been publicly presented in different ways (2022 and 2023, see documentation below). Another public presentation was at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, as part of the symposium "Time to Listen" (scroll down to see the documentation of my session) in August 2023.

Its objectives are:

1 get a glimpse of the great sound complexity of ecosystems through a conversational and almost narrative approach,the use of immagination and creative listening;

2 try to critically investigate the alienation of most human beings, including myself, from nonhuman animals and the ecosystem of which we are also part and on which our lives depend;

3 look for traces of effective communication between humans and non-humans in the European context (i.e., the culture in which I was born and raised and which I therefore feel I can best understand);

4 promote a collective or community discourse, reflection, or practice.