A dialogue on cultures of listening
On July 1st Proboscis organised an open dialogue on Cultures of Listening for Interdependence Day at the Royal Geographic Society. The dialogue took the form of a series of conversations between an invited group of artists, social scientists, teachers, researchers, curators and policymakers at a picnic in Kensington Gardens, just across from the RGS.
Camilla Brueton was commissioned to create an artwork inspired by the event - The Human Echoes Archive - of which this podcast is a part. The Human Echoes Archive is a box of fictional and factual materials (drawings, maps, postcards, index cards, audio cd) that mimics the form, materials, structure and tools of archiving to reflect and extend the interconnected conversations of Human Echoes - a Dialogue on Cultures of Listening. The Archive adopts a numerical ordering system to collect material relating to the people who were present, issues emerging and questions raised at the Dialogue. Like the informal pockets of conversation which took place at this picnic one can navigate freely between the material in the Archive rummaging, cross referencing and re-ordering or by using the the subject index and footnote references.
This podcast is an edited version of the article contained in the archive with images of other material from it.
Human Echoes
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
