The Listeners

The Listeners is a long-term practice and process-based durational performance by theater-maker Pankaj Tiwari and Maria Magdalena Kozłowska. The proposal is simple: to be available and listen. The availability is not just in terms of duration, but also in terms of emotions. The Listeners occupy a space for several days in a row or come back to it regularly, so their service becomes known to the community or local residents.

The performance happens in a huge post-industrial space, where only one spectator is allowed/invited at a time. The Listeners remain silent and witness whatever this visitor has to vocalize. There is no physical or technical documentation of the action. It is momentary, and except for the emotional documentation or the images left in both sides' memories, there is no tangible or physical documentation of the event/action.