This talk takes a critical position against cartography, and discusses its connections to colonial practices, such as mapmaking and imperial borders. Drawing insights from alternative spatial practices in some of the Global Souths regions and cultures, and from radical-subversive practices in Europe, such as The Situationists, in this talk he delineates some counter mapping practices and thoughts, especially attuning with situated listening and drifting.

Within this discursive context, He presents his artistic research in nomadic listening and sonic psychogeography, manifested in several of his projects, releases, and publications. In particular, drawing from the recent projects, Aural Drift (2021), Co-sounding (2024) and Landing (2023 – 2024), he argues how an unfolding auditory situation holds acts of listening open, instead of closing it down in the form of a soundscape. Here he takes liberty to critique soundscaping and acoustic design approach (Schafer 1994). He argues that, for a listening artist, it is crucial to perform acts of adaptive perception by care and empathy in intersubjective listening, attunement, and trace these emergent situations in the form of personal narratives.

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Cette conférence adopte une position critique à l’égard de la cartographie et examine ses liens avec les pratiques coloniales, telles que la confection de cartes et l’édification de frontières impériales. S’inspirant de pratiques spatiales alternatives dans certaines régions et cultures du Sud, et de pratiques radicales et subversives en Europe, telles que celles des Situationnistes, cette conférence présente certaines pratiques et pensées de contre-cartographie, en s’appuyant en particulier sur l’écoute et la dérive.

Dans ce contexte, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay présentera ses recherches artistiques sur l’écoute nomade et la psychogéographie sonore, qui se manifestent dans plusieurs de ses projets, compositions et publications. En particulier, en s’appuyant sur les projets récents Aural Drift (2021), Co-sounding (2024) et Landing (2023 – 2024), il expliquera comment une situation auditive maintient les actes d’écoute ouverts, au lieu de les fermer sous la forme d’un paysage sonore. En élaborant une critique de l’approche du soundscaping et du design acoustique (Schafer 1994), Budhaditya Chattopadhyay soutient que, pour un artiste de l’écoute, il est crucial d’accomplir des actes de perception adaptative, par la syntonie, l’attention et l’empathie dans l’écoute intersubjective, et de retracer ces situations émergentes sous la forme de récits personnels.

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Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer. Chattopadhyay produces works for exhibition, installation and live performance addressing contemporary issues of environment and ecology, migration, and decoloniality. His works have been widely exhibited, performed, or presented across the globe. Chattopadhyay has an expansive body of scholarly publications in media arts history, artistic research, media theory and aesthetics in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of five books, including The Nomadic Listener (2020), The Auditory Setting (2021), Between the Headphones (2021), and Sound Practices in the Global South (2022). Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in Artistic Research and Sound Studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), Basel, Switzerland, and a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen, Norway.