Listening as Doorways to Futures is a collaborative, counter-intellectual sound collage that resists recent cultural and sociological claims that humanity is experiencing the ‘End of Imagination’. 

What if other worlds are out there, but just not visible with the current method of exploration? What if the empirical, data-driven and rigid scientific approach simply does not allow for other systems to be perceived, just as the image-centred world ignores other forms of experiencing? This artistic project aims to counter the claim of a loss of imagination and will exercise sound as a portal to different worlds by conglomerating field recordings from ten participants across the globe who aim to answer one simple question: which sounds open up doorways to futures? 

The project took place in form of two workshops with artists Chloe Kelly and Julian Willming. 
Concept: Julian Willming
Artistic Direction: Julian Willming & Chloe Kelly
Mastering: Julian Willming

We are grateful for the financial and strategic support by the Center of Experimental Humanities at the Open Society University Network and Central European University.

Listening As Doorways To Futures

recording the built and natural environment to induce the critique and imagination of diverse socio-political trajectories