coming up in 2021 Jan-Feb Dr. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay workshops + 2 book launches

Hyper-listening: praxis

Workshop on (urban) sound, listening and wellbeing

Conducted by: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Website: http://budhaditya.org/

Hyper-listening: praxis is a series of collective actions that operates as a set of exercises and conceptually triggered experiments involving the methodology of meditative listening that intends to explore the transcendental aspect of everyday sound and engaged learning about the self and its environment through a production of subjectivity. These actions help to locate multitude of associative thoughts, mindful ephemera, imaginations and memories emerging as a response to being in an immersive environment of contemporary urban life. These sonic thought-streams are guided as fertile auditory associations to engage independently, inclusively and contemplatively with the self and the personal environment. This on-going series of actions has been conducted in various arts, humanities and cultural institutions across Europe and Asia in workshop and other scholarly formats to mobilize and nurture an awareness of social inclusion and contemplative acceptance of the others in the context of today’s turbulent times.

Project link: http://budhaditya.org/projects/doors-of-nothingness/hyper-listening-praxis/  

Duration: 3 hours

Target public: all audiences (interest in poetry and music is preferred).

Number of participants: 20 maximum.

Requirements: pens and paper; a room with a projector + a screen; and a PA system