Workshop – Recalling the Future

Presented by Danni Zuvela, Rainbow Chan, Jannah Quill, Andrew McLellan and Nathan Gray with Betty Apple and Kaya Hanasaki

In a futuring practice, memory and anticipation work side by side. As we engage with the forces of change – political, social, industrial, private or public – the challenge is to politicise our imaginings as we remember and connect with our different pasts. It is in the process of backcasting that we design from a (desired) future scenario to the present day, determining how we measure whether we are heading towards this particular future. For many of us, 30 years is just about the imaginable limit of time; futuring presupposes that if we can remember (or imagine) life 30 years ago, then we can imagine life in 30 years’ time. In the sonic time of social sound, how will we need to listen in order to deepen our understanding of each other, while holding a space for the unknowable?

In this workshop we will explore the possibilities of design methodologies for generating productive unthinking, unlearning and unknowing in shared listening encounters. Reflecting on their experience of touring Taiwan, Liquid Architecture artists will instigate a series of dialogic activities for the collective imagination of alternative realities, past and future.

Artist Talk

In this talk, we would like to share our approach to contemporary sound art, and how this manifests in our programming experimental music, performance, talks and experimental pedagogy. We will share some of our experiences on our recent tour of Taiwan, and how our projects explore ways of listening politically through artistic engagement with challenging concepts, and the reasons we are interested in learning to hear differently.

Presented in partnership with Taipei Contemporary Art Center