My workshops revolve around listening — as an artistic practice, as a social act, as a tool for thinking in groups. Some are designed for students, some for artists, some for children. What they share: we don’t start from theory, we start from your own perception. And we work from the idea that listening is something you can practice — and that practicing it changes how you move through the world.
I tailor each workshop to the context it takes place in. If you’d like to invite one of these formats or develop a new one together, get in touch.
One-day workshop · for students, artists, and anyone curious
Listening isn’t the same as hearing. Hearing happens on its own — listening is a choice. This workshop takes that distinction as its starting point and asks: what shifts in a relationship, a conversation, a rehearsal, when I actually listen?
Through practical exercises, participants try out different modes of listening and notice how they change communication, attention, and collaboration. We work with Bernhard Pörksen’s distinction between I-ear and You-ear listening — the question of what happens to an encounter when presence matters more than interpretation. Impulses from Pauline Oliveros‘ Deep Listening open the practice out into space and into collective processes.
By the end of the day, participants have a feel for how much their own perception is shaped by expectations and experience — and how to use that as both an artistic and a social tool.
Developed for University of Greifswald (2025)
Sound workshop for children (primary school age and up) · multi-day, flexible
What do you hear when you close your eyes? Does the forest sound different from the supermarket? And why do some sounds feel annoying while others feel calming?
In this workshop, children go on listening walks through their surroundings — collecting sounds, describing them, recording them, mapping out acoustic places. From rustling leaves and birdsong to the noise of a shopping centre, they discover how differently sound can be perceived and judged, and that every ear hears its own version.
Out of the collected material we build a sound collage together — with narrative elements if the group wants. Each child contributes in the way that fits them: with their own recordings, with their voice, with text, with decisions about the form. What emerges at the end is a sound piece that really belongs to them.
Developed for Freie Schule Potsdam (2019)
Multi-day workshop · for students, artists, interdisciplinary groups · in English or German
How do you move through a crisis? What is a crisis, actually — an event, a condition, a feeling? And can a collective, artistic approach help us not get lost inside it?
This workshop brings three practices together: listening, storytelling, and work with the body. We go outside together — into a forest, a park, the edge of a city — and use listening as a way to meet our own experiences of crisis, without having to press them into words straight away. From what we hear, small stories, gestures, and images begin to emerge. We practice listening to each other without immediately commenting. And we see what happens when a group doesn’t carry its crises one by one, but for a moment carries them together.
The workshop is for anyone looking for artistic tools to work with uncertainty, overwhelm, or rupture — in their own practice, in groups, in teaching.
Developed for University of Greifswald (2021)
Images 1. Arman Harutunyan 2. Matthias Schönijahn 3. Johannes Plank
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