Art of Listening create artistic projects, workshops & processes that change the way we experience reality.
Thomas Rosendal Nielsen, Professor and Head of Department, Dramaturgy and Musicology, University of Aarhus.
( K.E. Løgstrup, Philosopher)
The focus of our work is on the connections within reality that becomes apparent when we cultivate the art of listening.
Again and again we hear, that in order to solve the complex challenges we are facing – at a personal, local and global scale – we need to come together. To collaborate. To integrate.
We all know this in theory – but in practice it can be very challenging to actually do. How can we use our individual freedom and creativity to create new shared structures? Structures that are conscious, responsible, courageous and wise?
We believe that when we embrace a larger perspective of life, time and space, the realization and experience of interconnectedness tells us something important about reality. We believe that the most powerful, hopeful and joyful ways to confront the future lie there.
Phenomenological: We examine different aspects of reality from the point of view of an embodied human experience.
Philosophical: We are more curious about questions than answers
Aesthetic: Our work is grounded in participatory, sensorial and immersive art practices that focus on perception and meaning making through the senses.
Bigger Reality: To place our unique, individual human experience within the bigger, transpersonal time and space reality of an unfolding universe.
Collective Intelligence: To understand and develop new, more complex ways of co-existing and co-creating that are dynamic, creative and conscious.
Human Meetings: To understand the subtle ways in which culture is created through human encounters.
Curiosity, Lightness, Generosity, Simplicity & Response-ability
As accomplished professional artists, working with immersive performing arts for 20+ years we have specialized in and developed aesthetic tools that allow people to experience reality from a bigger perspective and engage with a greater sense of meaning and connectedness.
We work collaboratively, across sectors, with both individuals and institutions. Our work has grown out of collaborations with architects, philosophers, culture workers, priests, city planners, communities, schools, libraries and museums.
A creator of performances and installations, Sara works as an artistic leader, scenographer, lighting designer and performer in cross-aesthetic and co-creative productions. She leads creative processes and intersubjective dialogues and is the artistic leader of Carte Blanche.
Sarah works as a director, performer and leader of creative processes. She enjoys working collaboratively, across many forms, on projects that dive into big questions. She is particularly interested in invisible things and how to listen to what is hidden beneath, between and
within everyday reality.
You can write to Sara Topsøe-Jensen: sara(at)cblanche.dk
Or Sarah John: sj(at)art-of-listening.org
