Listening Forward

Artistically-led symposium developed with SONIC TOMORROW.

Academic symposia frequently reinforce vertical power structures, positioning speakers as sole authority figures. This hierarchy inhibits the collective potential of sound culture and activism to generate shared understanding and actionable knowledge.

Establish a horizontal pedagogy of listening. The symposium reconfigures the participant-speaker relationship, framing invited guests as facilitators rather than didactic experts. Through this communal approach to knowledge-building, the event explores the intersection of sound and artistic research, treating listening as an active, political methodology for connecting diverse epistemologies.