listening _ lab

a research project, workshops and exchange program

Unlike the act of speaking, the act of listening is an act of freedom:
It presupposes autonomy. Listening in this profound sense is a gift.
(Bernhard Pörksen)

The listening_lab is a transdisciplinary, open and performative research and laboratory dedicated to the question of how the practice of listening can embody, enhance, influence and propose artistic practices in a time of increasing polarisation, environmental and climate catastrophes, political fatigue or revolt.

How does listening change us?
In which ways does what we listen to change us and our bodies?
Do we listen in order to be moved, affected, touched?

In addition to my own research and participation in a three-month intensive course in Deep Listening at The Center for Deep Listening / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, I will engage in an exchange about ‘listening’ with a small group of like-minded people in the course of 2025.

In the autumn holidays, there will be a workshop week open to everyone.

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October 27th - 31st, 2025

The workshop week will be devoted entirely to “listening” as a tool for self-awareness and togetherness. The workshops offer various somatic approaches and insights into the working methods of the invited teachers from various fields and disciplines. Methods from dance improvisation meet work with sound, bodywork meets somatic therapeutic approaches.
The aim is to provide a platform for creative encounters in a gentle and inviting environment.
The complete programme will be published in September.

Location: Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance Stuttgart, Tunnelstr. 16, 70469 Stuttgart

Made possible by a research grant by the Arts Council of the city of Stuttgart. The training at The Center for Deep Listening is kindly supported by LaFT Baden-Württemberg.
In collaboration with Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance Stuttgart.