The Listening Project
The Listening Project
the Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
October 4, 2026
Text + Visual Art + Dance
Interactive performance-installation
Texts/Paintings/Dance
The Listening Project is a participatory and interdisciplinary work exploring how language, interpretation, and embodiment intersect. It was performed at the Athenaeum in Alexandria, VA.
To read the public’s submitted texts here
For a description of the artist’s process here
Scroll down to view a selection of The Listening Project’s paintings and dances.
The Listening Project
Selected paintings based
on the public’s submitted texts
by Anne Willieme
Music at the Louvre
Text submission Ilinca Fortuna
I Am the Frisbee
Text submission David Moss
Lourdes, a Testimony
Text submission
Brock Baker
The Summer of 78
Text submission Sonia Campos
The Wisdom of Pema Chodron
Text submission Mary Burnham
Photos David Moss
Dancer Kate Walker interpreting
The Listening Project paintings