A performative listening walk by Nathalie Singer during the Performing Arts & Digitality Festival, Wiesbaden 2024.

A Performative Listening Walk by and with Nathalie Singer

In her audio walk, Nathalie Singer invites the audience to attune themselves to the art of listening and to reflect on its impact on shaping different environments. Participants explore both the interior and exterior spaces of the former courthouse in Wiesbaden, which resonate with impressive soundscapes and narratives from South America, Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa — sounds and voices collected during the two-year project “Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio” across three continents.

What do architectures of obedience sound like? Who holds the power to make decisions, and who holds the power to remain silent? How can spaces for collective listening be created, and do they automatically lead to greater democracy, participation, and inclusion? To better coexistence with other living beings and habitats as well? And what does all of this have to do with globalization and the medium of radio?