Anthology for Listening Vol. II – Live-version II

Date: Saturday the 16th of August

Time: 10.00 – 10:45

Place: Struer Tracks / Struer Library, Smedegade 7, 7600 Struer

Presenters: Emily Sage Avery, Israel Martínez, Irini Kalogeropoulou. 

We’re delighted to present a new live iteration of Anthology for Listening Vol. II as part of this year’s Struer Tracks.

This live session brings selected contributions from the anthology into a shared space—acknowledging the inherent limitations of the printed page while exploring the possibilities of listening together. How might the anthology become a meeting point for embodied, collective experiences?

Hosted at Struer Library, this slow-paced event invites audiences to settle into a reflective atmosphere. The program includes a live performance of Emily Sage’s lullabies and a reading of Israel Martínez’s text Stealth and Silent—both offering moments to attune to sound, imagination, and presence.

The session concludes with an invitation to join Irini Kalogeropoulou’s listening walk, City Center – just for the two of us, guiding participants outdoors into the city’s soundscape for a more personal auditory encounter.

Readings and presentations will be offered in both English and Danish.

Members of Bureau for Listening will perform the reading on behalf of Israel Martínez, and Irini Kalogeropoulou’s listening walk is score based and individually performed.

Links to the online versions of the activated contributions:

Emily Sage’s Sounds of Serenity Garden

 

Israel Martinez’s Stealth and Silent / PDF with Danish translation

 

Irini Kalogeropoulou’s City Center – for just the two of us / PDF with Danish translation

 

 

Emily Sage Avery. 1994. She/her. United States of America.

 

Emily Sage is a US-based sound artist with strong leanings in jazz, soul, and cinema. Her work is heavily influenced by her time growing up in Portugal, which has shaped her romantic and melancholic songwriting style. Sage’s creative practice is built on a foundation of innovation and emotional honesty. Her work finds new ways to communicate and express the complexities of what it means to be alive, diving deep into moments that feel fundamentally human.

 

To listen is to open the door to connection with the world, with an other, and with self.

Irini Kalogeropoulou. 1998. She/her. Greece.

 

I’m Irini Kalogeropoulou, an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and arts educator based in Athens, Greece. My work focuses on sound art and participatory practices in public space, exploring themes of grief, absence, memory, urban dynamics, and the nuances of everyday life.

 

To listen is a form of poetry in action.

Israel Martínez. 1979. He/him. Mexico.

 

Israel Martínez works from sound to the visual arts, often with influences from literature, creating works and projects materialized in multichannel audio installations, video, photography, actions and text, trying to generate critical social reflections and to explore some aesthetic and political possibilities of silence.

 

To listen is opening a necessary pause.