To mark the end of her year-long residency as Research Curator at FACT, Stella Sideli chairs this panel discussion exploring composition, polyphony, movement, and collective world-building as core elements of artistic and institutional practice.

Grounded in ideas of listening, attunement, and shared or embodied resonance, this conversation considers how creative methodologies—spanning sound, voice, philosophy, computation, and performance—can support re-thinking governance, decision-making, and collaboration. 

The panel, which will be a kind of listening score that audience members are invited into, will blend gestures, reflections, and conversation to explore listening not only as a topic, but as a shared composition, a space of attunement, and a soft, relational shift. Bringing together artists and researchers working across different disciplines, including Vivienne Griffin, Lola de la Mata, Xiaowen Zhu, and Adi Lerer, we'll explore how improvisation, rhythm, and relationality shape collective structures, questioning hierarchical models of participation and institutional engagement.

Rather than reinforcing extractive or transactional modes of involvement, this conversation explores openness, co-presence, and the generative unpredictability of collective processes—asking how artistic practices and methods can challenge institutional dynamics and expand the possibilities of collaboration and transformation.