Listening with CRiSAP #5 - Future Real Conditional

CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice, UAL) celebrates its 20th anniversary with 20 unique episodes for Resonance Extra.

Since 2005, CRiSAP has pioneered new approaches to practice and theory by exploring sound and listening in relation to the environment, gender, technology, feminism, activism, conflict, text, pedagogy and voice. For Resonance Extra, CRiSAP members and friends, past and present, host a range of discussions and soundworks that cover key themes and areas of research across art, performance, symposia, publishing, curation, archives, education and more.

This episode is a conversation between Abby Clemens and Miriam Elgon. They discuss aspirations for possible sound art futures, using images and exploring questions of purpose, responsibility and affordance. Taking their lead from Tina M. Campt’s book Listening to Images and her ideas of the ‘future real conditional’.

‘The future real conditional or that which will have had to happen… A performance of a future that hasn’t yet happened but must. It is an attachment to a belief in what should be true, which impels us to realize that aspiration.’ (Campt, 2017, p.17).

Contributors: Abby Clemens and Miriam Elgon.