As Roots Grow Back Into Us

Opening reception on Thursday September 25 at 15-18

Opening hours September 25-28 and October 2-5 at 15-18

Exhibition at platform BUNKER – Asgård, Rolfsvej 10-12, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark

Organized in collaboration with Bureau for Listening as part of the manifestation of The Listening Biennal in Copenhagen running through September and October

Free entrance

Workshops & Listening Sessions:

September 21 at 11-13: Underground Listening – Listening Lab for kids (5+ years, in Danish with English translations available)

September 21 at 17-19: Underground Listening – Listening Lab (all ages, in English)

September 25 at 15-18: Exhibition opening

September 28 at 16:00: Artist talk hosted by Lukas Quist Lund (Bureau for Listening)

October 4 at 16-18: Underground Listening – Guided session with the exhibition

About

As a bunker provides protection during critical times, similarly As Roots Grow Back Into Us offers a shelter from the high-paced urban pressure cooker of everyday life, and invites the audience to enter into the underground sonic world around the bunker space, where non-linear, ecocentric logics reigns — even in the city.

Through a place-bound responsive sound installation and performative listening sessions, As Roots Grow Back Into Us guides the path to a sonic underworld that extends beyond human time and boundaries. Descend into the bunker and be slowly consumed!

Christine Hvidt is a Danish multidisciplinary artist based in Denmark and The Netherlands, with a heart burning for the unique life forms and astonishing intelligences on Earth. Christine combines technology, ecology, art, science, animism, and philosophy to explore relational frameworks across species and cultures. Her experimental and place-bound approach fosters tangible encounters and intimate reconnection with beyond-human creatures and forces in the ecosystems they inhabit through participatory listening, sound, responsive systems, embodiment, poetic writing, audiovisuals, and imagination. Christine holds a BA in Art&Technology (AU, DK) and an MA in ArtScience (KABK, NL).

platform BUNKER is an intimate exhibition space for hybrid practices that equals and unites art forms in a time where boundaries between disciplines become fluid and shape new artistic formats. It offers a range of interdisciplinary art works created by national and international artists. The exhibitions are all created specifically for the bunker and present performative, intimate total-experiences. The distinctive architecture of the bunker challenges the idea of a traditional exhibition space and reveals novel formats of presenting art.

Due to its size, vault and building materials, the bunker works well for audio visual performances that stimulate the senses in 360 degree experiences. Thus, the participants are spatially and acoustically activated in an all-encompassing atmosphere.

platform BUNKER is neither a theatre, nor a white cube but an inclusive and intimate space providing the artists with the possibility of rethinking the audience experience through the active engagement of the participants.

Curated by Rebekka Bohse Meyer & Sól Ey

The Listening Biennial is an international artistic and research initiative that highlights listening as a relational capacity—a philosophical, political, creative, and research-driven practice .

The Biennial operates as a decentralized global platform, commissioning audio works, performances, and discursive programs across cities. Embracing radical empathy, ecological attunement, sonic storytelling, and interspecies dialogues, it asks: how can listening dismantle exclusion, human exceptionalism, and entrenched power structures?

Since its launch in 2021, The Listening Biennial has grown through local “manifestations” with partner venues and institutions. It also runs the Listening Academy, a series of workshops and seminars on listening as creative practice, in cities like Berlin, Delhi, Hong Kong, and Skopje.

Under a network of artists, curators, scholars, and collectives, the Biennial fosters an ecology of attention, encouraging participatory, attuned, and diverse listening cultures worldwide.