Our chance of becoming human

Creative Anthropologies entry by raukarna

A short sensory soundwalk designed to be used beside the sea or any waterway. Produced as part of the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project. Illustration by Emma Thorén.

This track has been put together with the UNESCO Spring School at Glasgow University, using words, stories and sounds emerging from conversations on the Peace Bench.

A track made by and with the participants in the autumn 2024 artist residency at Eslövs Stadsbibliotek. Together we explored nature using our senses, learned new words, told stories, and made things. Thanks to everyone who lent their voices, sounds and languages to this piece: Elvira, Leila, Tayebeh, Damascene, Meri, Gorjan, Melina, Selina, Adison, Karna and Eileen.

Episode 4 of a podcast documenting a PhD journey, this time reflecting on a weekend spent writing songs with a group of young women from all over the world, and sharing demos of a couple of those songs. This episode also draws on the work of anthropologist Victor Turner, cellist Yo Yo Ma, and radical feminist theorist bell hooks.

Episode 3 of Our Chance of Becoming Human - an audio scrapbook charting the journey of a PhD that's exploring how creating music together can have an effect on social integration. This episode bounces around finding connections between the work of feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero, social anthropologist Tim Ingold, and professor of applied and social theatre, James Thompson. And there are a co...

Episode 2 of Our Chance of Becoming Human - a podcast charting the journey of a PhD that's exploring how creating music together can have an effect on social integration. This episode takes us from dialogue theory to storytelling to immigration detention to narrative therapy to Bakhtin and polyphony, with some musical interludes inspired by Greek poet Sappho.

Episode 1 of new podcast, Our chance of becoming human. This episode explores collaborative songwriting as a translation process, and ponders what can be 'found in translation'. And if integration and translation are both bridges from one person or place to another, then what is the nature of the in-between, the interstitial, liminal spaces?