Listen to My World

“Listen to My World” is born out of an interest in listening to stories less often told, and the belief that these stories matter. It reflects on what it is that makes us feel included or excluded from a place or space, and proposes that listening to each other’s experiences of these spaces and places could afford us a way to be more empathetic and generous toward each other. In these divisive times that seek to separate rather than unite, where diversity is willfully misunderstood as irreconcilable difference and listening “to” has been displaced by talking “at”, it feels essential to encounter each other afresh.

During the making of “Listen to My World” Claudia Molitor met with people in five European cities/towns. Curious to hear their stories, she found out more about how they experience, see, hear and understand spaces in the places they call home. Whilst making the work, she considered the wonderful people she had met, the stories they told her, the experiences they were generous enough to share, the spaces they introduced her to and taught her to see differently, and how these encounters affected her. All these thoughts and contemplations have woven themselves into the visual and sonic materiality of the installation, to reflect back on these fascinating encounters.

The work is inspired by the stories shared with Molitor by Adele Jones, Marisa De Picker, Pauliina Näsänen, Razane H. and Salam Susu. To read more about their stories go to listentomyworld.co.uk.