Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

He/him
Saturday 13 May Symposium, De Brakke Grond

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a media artist, performer, researcher, and writer. Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installation and live performance addressing contemporary issues of environment and ecology, migration, race, and decoloniality. His works have been widely exhibited, performed, or presented across the globe. Chattopadhyay has an expansive body of scholarly publications in artistic research, media theory and aesthetics in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of four books: The Nomadic Listener (2020), The Auditory Setting (2021), Between the Headphones (2021), and Sound Practices in the Global South (2022). Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in Artistic Research and Sound Studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Critical Media Lab, Basel, Switzerland.

In his talk, Chattopadhyay will help us explore listening as a critical practice. Listening allows us to expand our own boundaries. Through listening, we can not only break apart but also reassemble our realities. Yet, we so often fail to listen. Deliberately avoiding certain voices, why are we unable to listen in some settings? How does this politics of not listening shape us and our understanding of the world around us?

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