Openlab: The Witness

CAN CONSCIOUS LISTENING SPARK RADICAL CHANGE?

Around the world, transdisciplinary groups of artists, scientists, and activists in collaboration with their local communities, are listening to our imperiled planet’s messages around potential collapse — or hope for rehabilitation. Their research, which incorporates audio, video, text, and other creative platforms, implores us to witness what may disappear forever, as well as build, with great urgency, new networks of caregiving for the earth. Openlab The Witness shares this research through an interactive global map that highlights the relationship between humans and our non-human kin.

For us, Open Invitation is a research project with Sonic matter wherein we witness this magnanimous piece of land across a long period of time in its changing landscapes
while it witnesses us and we witness each other.

Lead Researcher:
Shabari Rao

Researchers:
Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy
Manush John
Navya Sah

More about the project here.

More about he 5 minute Film here.