Speaking about the inevitable. Listening to the unnameable
A choral project of voices that places listening at the centre of accompaniment, care and consolation
“Every dialogue, every conversation, is possible only if the person speaking and the person listening, the person giving care and the person receiving it, understand one another through the open reciprocity of their language and horizons of meaning”
Eugenio Borgna, Gentle Listening
Through a series of interviews, Open Dialogues creates spaces of encounter in which to share, reflect on and question the relationships between scientific thought, clinical practice and human experiences related to mental health, death, suicide, euthanasia, bioethics and other ethical and philosophical questions that inevitably shape and traverse our lives.
The interviews are published in full and can also be organised and listened to thematically, placing the voices in dialogue and creating new relationships and modes of listening between them.
“Dialogue is a prerequisite for positive change in any form of therapy”
Jaakko Seikkula and David Trimble
Voices:
Adriana Cavarero, Akaitze Kamiruaga Garitaonandia, Antonio Madrid Pérez, Asun Pié Balaguer, Cristina Blanco, María Irigoyen Otiñano, Guglielmo Foffani, Caren Frederica Niemann, Karin Bijsterveld, Laura Llevadot, Lionel Meunier, María Martínez Pisón (Mary Bramble), Núria Terribas i Sala, Pau Miquel, Ramón Andrés, Raquel Ferrández Formoso, Santiago López Petit, Sara Mederos, Silvia Melero Abascal, Tom Rice, Vanesa Aresté Vilanova.
Presentation of Open Dialogues
Espai Mercat del Pla (Lleida)
Public presentation of the project, the interview archive and the physical and digital publications.
An event forming part of Mikel R. Nieto’s Horizontal Listening research project, in collaboration with La Panera (Lleida) and with support from the Spanish Ministry of Culture through the “Public Grants for the Creation, Research and Production of Artistic Projects in Residence” (2025).
