Listening Yet to Come: Research Article Titles for Listening
Listening Yet to Come: Research Article Titles for Listening
Project description:
Listening Yet to Come: Research Article Titles for Listening is an ongoing artistic research project that reflects critically on how research and knowledge production are shaped, constrained, and imagined within contemporary sound studies. Rather than producing completed research outcomes, the project operates through speculative research article titles that gesture toward studies that do not yet exist and may never fully exist. These titles function as sites of inquiry in themselves, asking what kinds of listening we have been able to research, what forms of listening remain excluded or unintelligible, and what research we might need but cannot yet undertake due to epistemic, institutional, or political limitations.
The project is grounded in a practice of imagining research as a critical method. It examines how dominant Western centered knowledge traditions shape what counts as valid research questions, methods, and objects, often privileging extractive, measurable, and human centered forms of listening. By working at the threshold of speculation, the project seeks to unsettle these logics and open listening toward other temporalities, ontologies, and relations, including ecological, more than human, and decolonial perspectives that resist easy articulation within existing academic frameworks.
Focusing on the research title as a condensed site of academic desire and authorization, Listening Yet to Come exposes the gap between what research infrastructures allow us to do and what listening practices demand in response to contemporary political and ecological crises. The titles articulate dreams of research that exceed current conditions, foregrounding absence, impossibility, and longing as productive forces in knowledge making rather than failures to be resolved.
The project unfolds through publications, research presentations, installations, and performative readings in which titles are voiced as auditory events. These presentations invite participants to listen not for answers but for resonances, tensions, and futures embedded within the act of naming research itself. In doing so, the project proposes listening as both a methodological experiment and an ethical practice, attuned to what remains unheard, unthinkable, or not yet known, and committed to reimagining how research might be practiced otherwise.
