In a new episode of STRP's podcast Here's to the future, we discuss the theme The Art of Listening with Martina Raponi, artist and writer researching noise and complexity, and co-creator of STRP Scenario 22: Silence: (im)possible absences, that took place during STRP Festival 2023.

Growing up with a deaf parent, Martina developed an interesting relationship with sound and silence, and the difference but also comparison between the two. Listen to her take on the topic in this podcast episode.

Disclaimer: the STRP Scenario they’re talking about has already passed, but can be watched back on STRP Digital via this link: strp.nl/program/silence-impossible-absences

In a new episode of STRP's podcast Here's to the future, we discuss The Art of Listening with essayist and philosopher Miriam Rasch, who is currently writing a book about listening and the importance of it. She asks herself questions, compatible to this year’s festival theme, like how can we listen with our whole body, to non-human animals, plants or ecosystems? What does an oral culture sound like? And what is the sound of silence?

Explore these questions together with us, and maybe we’ll even find some answers.

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Welcome to ‘Here’s to the future’, a podcast series by STRP in which we invite artists and thinkers from the STRP network to share their thoughts about our future. This time we meet with speculative architect and director Liam Young, who operates in the spaces between design, fiction, and futures. Described by the BBC as ‘the man designing our futures’, his visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today.

In this episode, we meet with artist Hakeem Adam, a Ghanaian digital artist-in-learning, and freelance arts and culture writer, exploring the power of narrative, transmitted through various creative outlets including poetry, creative writing, photography, video art and sound design. He has contributed to the archive of African culture as a freelancer writer, and is the founder and creative director of DANDANO, a digital Pan-African cultural platform for African film and music criticism and documentation.

In this episode, we meet with writer and artist James Bridle, who has a long-standing interest in technology, art, and ecology. This year, James published a new book ‘Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence’, in which they consider the fascinating, uncanny and multiple ways of existing on earth. What can we learn from these other forms of intelligence and personhood, and how can we change our societies to live more equitably with one another, including other-than-humans, and the non-human world?