Participation's "Others": A Cartography of Creative Listening Practices Retreat

As part of our project Participation's "Others": A Cartography of Creative Listening Practices, led by Julian Brigstocke and Tehseen Noorani, the Authority Research Network have held a very productive residential retreat in north Devon.

The retreat brought together a highly interdisciplinary group of people interested in creative forms of listening with voiceless 'others', and consisted of some intense engagement with works-in-progress, combined with a very interesting series of arts-led workshops exploring ways of listening to non-conventional forms of more-than-human agency through drama, creative engagements with place, digital life, and silent listening.

We started work towards a collectively written, multimedia book of essays, creative writing, songs, and other creative outputs. Watch this space!

Participants included: Claire Blencowe (Sociology, Warwick University); Sara Bowler (independent artist); Julian Brigstocke (Geography, Cardiff University);  Jo Collinson-Scott (Commercial Music, University of West of Scotland); Sam Kirwan (Socio-Legal Studies, Bristol University); Morag McDermont (Socio-Legal Studies, Bristol University); Naomi Millner (Geography, Bristol University); Gail McConnell (English, Queen's Belfast); Rachel Liebert (Critical Social Psychology, CUNY Public Science); Tehseen Noorani (Public Health, Johns Hopkins University); Matthew Olden (independent artist); Polly Wright (Hearth Centre).