The Listening Academy

The Listening Academy is an independent research academy focusing on listening as a philosophical, artistic, social and somatic issue. This entails a relation to performative, sonic, and ecological practices, sensing and sound studies, community organizing, and experimental pedagogy. The Academy offers a generative and nurturing framework for researchers and practitioners to engage in collaborative exchange, as well as workshopping new methodologies and knowledge practices. This includes bringing together individual approaches and work, and creating opportunities for material exploration and building new collaborations.

Academy – Delhi

Listening as writing, sonic fictioning, and rhetorical action – thinking relations between sound, voice, writing and language, and in what ways listening contributes to meaning-making.

Academy - Hong Kong 習聽為常

Gathering in Hong Kong for an edition of The Listening Academy, curated and facilitated by soundpocket.

Academy - Berlin

Following the work of adrienne maree brown, this edition of the Listening Academy considers listening as an emergent strategy and how it contributes to fostering community.

Workshop on Third Listening + Jam Session

Continuing with our exploration of the concept of Third Listening, reflecting upon its relation to ecological thinking and sharing across worlds.

Workshop on Third Listening, second session

Developing further the concept of Third Listening, shifting to questions of political life and becoming a listening citizen

Workshop on Third Listening

Focusing on listening as the basis for intersubjectivity and thirdness, the workshop aims at speculative sharing toward Third Listening

Academy - Goa

In what ways do the unheard and inaudible figure within personal and interpersonal experience? Are there particular listening methodologies that afford ways of attending to the unheard?

Listening as Witnessing

Transdisciplinary symposium on the issue of listening as witnessing, integrating artistic, performative and research-based field work.

Academy - Basel

Developed in collaboration with Critical Media Lab, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, this edition of The Listening Academy brings focus to the issue of wildness.

Academy - Singapore

Coming together around questions of loss, grief, and attuning to absences and non-normative forms of listening.

Regenerative Listening

The symposium brings together researchers, artists and scientists to consider relations between listening, care and activism, through explorative presentations and discussions.

Academy - Berlin

How does listening affect the body and ways of attuning to embodied experiences? Moreover, how do different bodies listen?

Academy – Cairo

From navigating the aggressiveness of soundscapes and the possibility to unlisten, to philosophies of Sufi sonic healing and the sonic spaces affording intimate attunement.

Academy - Turku

How might quietness, opacities, echoes, whispers and other liminal sonorous phenomena be figured amidst situations of contestation? How might listening be utilized and offered within experiences of unbreatheability?

Academy - Bergen

This edition of the Academy brings together an international group of scholars, researchers and practitioners whose creative and critical expertise are supportive for diversifying what an art or science of listening may be.

Academy - London

What forms of emergent practices can be developed and deployed by way of listening, which may impact onto current social, planetary challenges? What potentialities and limitations does listening carry, and what might an acoustic literacy offer in terms of contending with the ongoingness of colonial (epistemic) violence?

Academy - Lisbon

How might we think further about listening as a discursive field? What forms of creative and critical practice can be developed and deployed by way of listening, which may impact onto current challenges? And are there particular ways in which listening can contribute to the project of decolonizing knowledge regimes?

Academy - Rio de Janeiro

Listening across borders, and the figuring of sonic pedagogies bound to the materiality of bodies.

Academy - Berlin/London

The Academy offers a generative and nurturing framework for researchers and practitioners to engage in collaborative exchange and the sharing of knowledge.

On the Listening Academy

some general perspectives on The Listening Academy.