Workshop
Fearless Listening: a workshop with Pallavi Paul

Pallavi Paul’s documentary films are woven from a rich sonic tapestry: the yearning of Qawwali singers, the explanations of disease by medical experts, the nocturnal sounds of thrashing waves, barking dogs, insects, and bats. The artist’s films are for listening, just as much as for viewing.

This workshop explores the reparative capacities of sound. Participants are invited to bring with them a short sound piece for shared listening (up to 60 seconds in any form—digital or analogue, recorded or live). Through practices of fearless listening, the artist invites us to bear witness and become sensitively attuned to a world undergoing renewal. Working against the assumption that listening is a passive activity, we will map sound’s relationship to memory and imagination. In the context of fragile relationships, we will explore the forms of relationship – ethical and ecological – that can be opened through listening to and with each other, such that we might also cultivate the capacity to hear the voices of mountains and rivers.

This workshop is limited to 12 people.

Pallavi Paul is a New Delhi-based visual artist and film scholar. She received her PhD in Film Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her work has been exhibited at the Sharjah Biennale (2025), where she received the Sharjah Biennial Prize.

Her institutional solo exhibitions include Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2024, 2023) and Berlinale Forum Expanded (2022) at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2025–26), Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2023, 2022); New Alphabet School, HKW Berlin (2021, 2020); Colomboscope, Sri Lanka (2021); the Rubin Museum, New York (2019); Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon (2018); AV Festival, New Castle (2018, 2016); Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017); and Tate Modern, London (2013).