Alessandro Bosetti is an Italian sound artist and performer, who has been consistently obsessed with languages and verbal interactions such as music for the past two decades. Starting from the seminal composition « The Pool and the Soup » which was originally written in 2006 for the Berlin vocal ensemble « Die Maulwerker”, Alessandro Bosetti has created and facilitated a number of conversational performances around the world – always with different groups of mainly nonprofessional performers in different contexts (e.g. theaters, private homes, gardens, schools) and in multiple languages (German, English, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian etc.). Each time, the system of rules is upgraded and further developed. For the project “Blurring Waters, Burning Needs” at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Bosetti rethinks this concept in the light of the present urgency. Triggered by the resurgence of conflicts and nationalism, which leads to a fragility in reference to the idea of linguistic koine, Bosetti rethinks his concept for the project “Blurring Waters, Burning Needs” at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, in light of the present urgency.