The Listening Biennial Audio Exhibition

About The Listening BiennialThe Listening Biennial focuses on listening as a creative practice, and on building listening cultures and knowledge. Its decentred format encourages collaboration and simultaneous presentations with partner institutions and spaces, involving a network of practitioners and organisations in different parts of the world.Curated by: Soledad García Saavedra, Alecia Neo and Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle.https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-editionAn Invite into Third ListeningThe third edition of The Listening Biennial invites us to tune into the humming stars above and the countless voices they carry. These are voices of love and loss, voices that hold the past while evoking a future, and that resound with mystery and force, threading cosmic matter and embodied life with their potent stories. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.The Singapore edition is co-programmed by artist Alecia Neo and publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books.For the full programme in Singapore, visit:https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/

The Listening Biennial - Singapore

The Listening Biennial presents 27 audio works by artists from Latin America, South and South-east Asia and Europe on Third Listening.

Arts Resource Hub (Black Box, Level 2), 42 Waterloo Street, S187951

<h3>The Listening Biennial Audio Exhibition</h3>Venue: Arts Resource Hub (Black Box, Level 2), 42 Waterloo Street, S187951Dates &amp; Opening Hours: Tue to Sun: 7:30 PM to 11 PM*unavailable during public programmes<h4>Presented by <a href="https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/" title="https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Listening Biennial</a>, a highlight of<a href="https://www.heritage.sg/sgnightfest" title="https://www.heritage.sg/sgnightfest" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> The Singapore Night Festival</a></h4><h4></h4>“So many stars are twinkling above me that I can hear them. I listen to their hum, countless voices whispering in my ear. I can imagine what they’re saying to me. I’m carrying the whole universe on my shoulders. We all do, all of us.” – Nona Fernández, VoyagerThe third edition of The Listening Biennial invites us to tune into the humming stars above and the countless voices they carry. These are voices of love and loss, voices that hold the past while evoking a future, and that resound with mystery and force, threading cosmic matter and embodied life with their potent stories. While our terrestrial, material existence demands increasingly committed forms of engagement, the cosmic voices above may continue to offer guidance in becoming-relatives. To look up is to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of connection found between here and there. The Listening Biennial aims at fostering a time and space in which such interstitial listenings may flourish.Presented across a constellation of partner institutions and spaces located in different parts of the world, and in collaboration with associated collectives and creative initiatives, The Listening Biennial takes shape through the concept of Third Listening, emphasizing the intersubjective and the interdependent. Third Listening is imagined as a form of interstitial listening intent on sensing and staying with the differential urgencies spanning cultural and material worlds. Third Listening is a listening done together and in spite of exclusionary systems, lending to acts of speaking-with and the embodied, living ethics that support diverse abilities. This includes holding the tension inherent to hospitality, where coexistence requires the ongoingness of struggle, imagination, courage and protection.Third Listening as a framework has been developed through workshops, conversations and collaborative testings over the past year, involving many contributors and interlocutors in different places and contexts. These have been vital situations for reflecting upon the concept as well as opening onto ways of enacting a third listening dynamic. From contending with current polarizations to protecting the shared vitality spanning planetary life, such interstitial listening follows the pulse of a thick relationality defining contemporary experience. These are rhythmic, entangled and messy states of being mobilized to foster reparative, restorative action and the maintenance of material partnerships. Carrying the Third invites ways of committing to each other.Following the concept of Third Listening, The Listening Biennial features artists, musicians, researchers and activists whose works give expression to the intersubjective and the interdependent, animating the specters and stories of planetary coexistence. These are elaborated through a multi-faceted program of exhibition presentations, listening situations, intimate gatherings, discursive and performance events, and explorative workshops taking place across 20 locations over two-months. This includes a program of online conversations aimed at bridging locations and languages as well as the publication of a series of audio papers by invited contributors.Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognizing its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. The third edition of The Listening Biennial is offered as a listening journey, inviting intimacy and the critical joy of collective worldings.Exhibiting artists:Florence Cats/Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir (Belgium/Iceland), Rachel S. Y. Chen (Singapore), Kaur Chimuk (India), Čhoakkeladd (Kashmir), Mariana Pinto Coelho Dias (Portugal), MycoDyke (India), Hear &amp; Found (Thailand), Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmar), Lynn Nandar Htoo (Myanmar), Lagos Sound Artists Collective (Nigeria), Okui Lala, Ana Estrada, Nasrikah (Malaysia/Australia/Indonesia), Nicole L’Huillier (Chile/Germany), Chong Li-chuan (Singapore), Subash Thebe Limbu (Nepal/United Kingdom), Elena Lucca (Argentina), Imaad Majeed (Sri Lanka), Yara Mekawei (Egypt), Graciela Muñoz (Chile), Jacqueline Nova (Belgium/Colombia), Lujáne Vaqar Pagganwala (Pakistan/United Kingdom), Amanda Piña (Austria/México), Ruhail Qaisar (Ladakh), Superlative Futures - Wong Zihao &amp; Diancong Liu (Singapore), Irazema H. Vera (Peru), Valentina Villarroel (Chile), YIM Sui Fong (Hong Kong), zeropowercut (India).Curated by: Alecia Neo, Soledad García Saavedra, Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle.Curatorial partners: Luís Alvarado / Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Mario Asef, Florencia Curci / Mene Savasta, Bárbara González, Sara Hamdy, Bojana Knezevic, Isuru Kumarasinghe &amp; Sara Mikolai, Israel Martínez, Ng Kah Gay, Bukola Oyebode, Banu Çiçek Tülü / Elif Gülin Soğuksu / Merve Ünsal , Alexandre St-Onge, Lucia Udvardyova, Yang Yeung (soundpocket).Top image: Nicole L’Huillier, La Orejona (Photo Credit: Juan Necochea)Bottom image: Irazema H Vera, Recording the Amazonas river, 2023 (Photo Credit: Leslie Searles)

...This exhibition is presented at 42 Waterloo Street with venue support from the Arts Resource Hub. The Arts Resource Hub supports arts Self-Employed Persons (SEPs) and freelance practitioners in Singapore to unlock new opportunities and grow meaningful careers.Please note that our photographer may be taking photos and videos at this venue. By visiting the artworks, you consent to be photographed or filmed.

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