The Delhi chapter of the Listening Academy is anchored to the prompt of listening as writing, sonic fictioning, and rhetorical action – thinking relations between sound, voice, writing and language, and the ways in which the entanglements of these with mediatic landscapes contribute to forms of meaning-making. While writing is mostly understood as an act of inscription, one that gestures toward leaving a mark to be read, in what ways can we think of listening as writing? If voice is fundamental to the crafting and archiving of stories, how does listening participate?

Participation in workshop and public programs based on responses to call: https://sarai.net/events/call-for-participation-the-listening-academy-delhi/

VENUE: Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054; Google Maps location 

Monday, 9 December 2024

4.00 – 5:30

Sonic Trails– Performance talk with guest Moushumi Bhowmik

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

2:30 – 6:00

Session 1– Vibrational tunings, disoriented listenings  (2:30 pm to 4:00pm)

with Moushumi Bhowmik as respondent

Sanctified Hearts and Invisible Purifiers: A Story of Vibration, Tuning, and Sacred Resonance in Eastern India – Sourav Saha, Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India

Bum Baṁ – Nicola Singh, Independent Artist

Session 2 – Materiality through notation, of voicing (4:30 pm to 6pm)

with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (Academy of Art and Design Basel and Department of Contemporary Art, University of Bergen) as respondent

Sonic Borderlines: Metaphors of Listening – Jeremy Woodruff, Doctoral School for Artistic Research (KWDS), University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

River Song: A Performative Presentation – Alessandra Eramo, UdK University of the Arts Berlin

Wednesday, 11 December 2024

2:00 – 6:30

Session 1 – Language, Converse, Storying Relations (2:00 pm to 3:15pm)

with Alessandra Eramo (UdK University of the Arts Berlin) as respondent

The dramaturgy of Conversation _ Translations at Play – Ingrid Cogne, Bergen Academy of Art and Design

Seda – A short essay on what I have and have not heard and try to put in a spiral of thoughts – Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Independent Artist

Session 2 – Limits and Sites of Amplification (3:30 pm to 4:45 pm)

with Anandit Sachdev (Researcher, Shiv Nadar University) and Suvani Suri (Research Associate, Sarai-CSDS) as conversants

Broadcaste – Piyush Kashyap, Independent Artist

Hekh: Detecting signals and generating calls – Rahul Juneja, Independent Artist

Sounding the Yamuna – Surbhi Mittal, Independent Artist

Session 3 – Listening wo(rl)ds, Writing sound (5 pm to 6.30 pm)

with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (Academy of Art and Design Basel and Department of Contemporary Art, University of Bergen) as respondent

Listening to the Past: The Acoustic Turn in the Historical Film – Shikha Jhingan, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics , Jawaharlal Nehru University

Writing Sound: War, Memory, and Affect – Nakshatra Chatterjee, Researcher, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

Friday, 13 December 2024

6:00 – 9:00 pm

Soundings at Sarai: a performance evening

Janneke van der Putten

Hemant Sreekumar

Matteo Marangoni

Alessandra Eramo

Surbhi Mittal 

Ish S

Vrinda Singh

The Listening Academy Delhi chapter is supported by Sarai-CSDS (New Delhi), Liquid Architecture (Melbourne),  Italian Cultural Institute (Delhi), Creative Industries Fund (Netherlands)