November 10-11, 2026
Vilnius, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Post-archival Listening: From Sounds to Soundings
Sounds are energies and social impulses that defy capture, control, categorization, and inscription. Post-colonial theorists and Decolonial critics of archiving consider large institutional archives and museums in the West as potential sites of conflict for centralizing the capture and storage of ephemeral experiences. They are recorded, technologically mediated, and objectified with an extractive relation to colonized lands and people as resources. These archives produce stagnant, often inaccessible, repositories of cultural capital through forced collection, quantification, and legislation that reduce experiences to scientific categories. The workshop and talks “Post-archival Listening: From Sounds to Soundings” departs from this critical position to offer diverse perspectives on the roles of archives, museums, and other institutional spaces of power today with control over narratives of culture and history. Broader questions are posed about the recordability of ephemeral experiences, such as sound as an object, proposing a multiplicity of listening positionalities and suggesting an epistemic shift from sound to listening and from production to reception. The workshop gathers diverse perspectives on a post-archival listening approach to turn the recorded objecthood of sound into acts of sounding; and incorporate a critical and self-reflexive attitude in field recording practice that is in attunement with the lived environments.
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a media artist, researcher, and writer. Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installations 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 aesthesis in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of five books. Chattopadhyay holds a PhD from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University. He is currently a researcher and associate professor at the Department of Contemporary Art, University of Bergen, Norway. https://budhaditya.org/
Programme:
November 10, 11–13 val. – Keynote lecture
November 10, 14–16 val. – Workshop / Listening session
November 11, 11-13 val. – Students’ works / discussion
November 11, 14-16 val. – Students’ works / discussion
Organized by LMTA KIMO and MISC. “ReSound” is part of the “Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Program,” “FilmEU”.