• René Magritte  «On the Threshold of Liberty» (Yvette Wohn/Flickr, 2009) .
    Column
    What is real and what is imagined? In her text inspired by a Laurie Anderson lecture, our writer thinks of listening as a possibility to become a stranger to oneself.
  • Artwork: Mister Colfer, 2021.
    Podcast
    The first episode of the podcast series «Modes of Listening & Sound Practices» explores the modes of listening that Carla J. Maier and rapper Manmeet Kaur adopted on their walks through Berlin. Together with the city’s architectures they unfold a unique sonic narrative.
  • photo: Brandon LaBelle, «Sonic Agency: Sound & Emergent Forms of Resistance», 2018.
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    Sound is able to merge supposed contradictions: in the audio walk «Zero, Land der Zukunft» at Dystopie Festival, our writer finds herself entangled both in dystopian and utopian worlds. Here is a short essay on listening as a mode of creating critical agencies.