The Singing Project: Open Singing

What if people met singing freely together?
What if an exhibition venue became a place of continuous song?

The Singing Project (2021–ongoing) is a collective practice and singing sculpture composed by Ayumi Paul, the Gropius Bau’s Artist in Residence 2022. Since its onset, the project has taken shape in a series of workshops, gatherings and an exhibition, hosting an open space to freely sing and listen to one another.

Contributing to knowledge systems that include intuition, imagination, body memory and dreaming as ways of being in the world, Ayumi Paul’s activations challenge linear narratives of relations.

Exploring how sounding as a practice can find constant presence in an exhibition hall, The Singing Project expands into yet another form in 2023. Throughout this year, a growing score of practice notes will gradually be installed in resonance to the freely accessible areas of the building. These notes enhance listening as a form of attentiveness for co-creating a communal language rooted in perceiving oneself as part of a polyphonic whole.