Workshop CItywalks
„For twenty-five centuries western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for beholding. It is for hearing … Now we must learn to judge a society by its noise“ (Jaques Attali 1985)
Nairobi: You haven’t been in one place for a week and you come back and almost can’t recognize it anymore. It seems like it will never be finished. These changes might be due to the incredible fast construction industry, international investment, political decisions by the city council or politicians, individual power structures, new technologies, socio-political issues of a growing middle-class, a bigger and bigger gap between the social classes, and a changing demographic. These changes are not only visible but very much hearable. How to record these changes? How to document this contemporary history?
Citywalks is a curatorial concept with an exhibition outcome to reflect on the fast pace of a changing city through sound. And to challenge the existing concept of how history is recorded and what a valid document of time is.
In the workshop, the participants will reflect on the city and its sounds and how sound can be used as a documentation of time and space.
Participants will be selected through a call.