Dear Stranger is a participatory sound installation created to test the threshold of human intimacy and the physicality of space, using anonymity as an essential element, to illuminate how ‘confessions’ alleviate our sensation of loneliness and social isolation.

The installation invites participants to take part in an immersive listening experience of a series of voice recordings collected from strangers around the world, recalling and divulging intensely private stories that haunt them. The installation emphasizes our profound commonalities and reminds us that we’re all deeply emotional creatures bound together by fears, fantasy
and longing.

In return, those listening to the recordings are given a chance to reply with a hand-written, anonymous letter; offering advice, commiseration or simply to say thank you.

Videography by Creation Neuf