The Listening Residency

The Grass Field Institute for Contemporary Listening presents The Listening Residency, a year-long program fostering artistic and critical engagement with practices of “being-with.” Designed for other-than-human listening entities, this residency expands the boundaries of creative inquiry and multisensory interaction. Situated within a speculative yet tangible framework, the program prioritizes the development of methodologies that honor interspecies, ecological, and posthuman modes of resonance and attunement. Through collaborative processes, participants are encouraged to explore the poetics and politics of listening, forging pathways toward more inclusive modes of relational existence.

An Invitation to Attune:

Dear Listener,

You are warmly invited to join us at The Grass Field Institute for Contemporary Listening to meet the entities in-residence, whose practices of being-with stretch across species, scales, and sensations. Here, we invite you not only to hear but to listen – to enter an ecology of presence where the boundaries between self and other dissolve in a shared resonance.

As you prepare to visit, we ask: What would it mean to surrender your usual ways of perceiving? In what ways can you welcome not-knowing? Can you imagine a conversation where no words are spoken, yet an expanded and deepened connection flows? What does it feel like to carry the tempo of a forest or the vibration of a stone within you? Allow yourself to listen differently, anew, or in an almost forgotten way.

Your hosts – whether wind, mycelium, or the murmurs of unseen beings – have been waiting patiently, crafting sonic and sensory exchanges that challenge human-centric paradigms of attention. They ask you to arrive softly and slowly, with open ears and an unguarded body. The Grass Field itself will guide you – its rustle, hum, and stillness a map to new forms of relational care.

While you most likely are arriving with shoes and open eyes, try to lose both, or let go of other habits that you have taken for granted.

There is no agenda, only an invitation:
To sit. To lay down. To be. To listen.

With care and resonance,
The residencies of The Grass Field Institute for Contemporary Listening