Projects / The Listening Biennial
THE LISTENING BIENNIAL brings together an international constellation of participating artists, musicians, and researchers, as well as institutions and collectives across the globe, to foster questions and experiences of listening. The Listening Biennial is conceived as a global project and aims at a decentralized structure where shared resonances and polyvocal manifestations can emerge across localities. This includes the commissioning and exhibition of audio works, experimental performances, and discursive events hosted and presented at collaborating institutions and venues, where listening and locality are accentuated, and cultural specificities contribute to a greater ecology of attention. From critical storytelling, experimental noise, and musical rapture to acoustic care, interspecies contact, and environments of sounded matter, the Biennial aims at fostering a listening world.
The first edition of THE LISTENING BIENNIAL was launched in 2021 and included the participation of thirty international artists presented at fourteen partner organizations, venues and collectives. In 2023, the second edition of the Biennial is taking place.
THE LISTENING BIENNIAL is managed by a team of artists, curators, scholars and organizers, including Artistic director Brandon LaBelle; curatorial advisors Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Israel Martínez, and Yang Yeung. In addition, Lucia Farinati (London) and Anastasia A. Khodyreva (Turku) assist in facilitating The Listening Academy. Sophie M and Gentian Meikleham act as assistants and researchers, helping manage communications and development. The Biennial has been supported by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme / Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, along with a number of key allies, including Oficina de Autonomia, Errant Bodies / Errant Sound, Berlin, as well as friends and colleagues whose expertise and passion contribute greatly to ongoing activities.
Partners to the project: The Listening Biennial