Bureau for Listening / The Listening Academy

Bureau for Listening has so far been very fortunate to be a part of:

The Listening Academy #Berlin: listening and the body (July 2023)

The Listening Academy #Berlin: third listening and emergent Strategies (August 2024).

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Participation in these academies has not only offered extensive insights into contemporary artistic research projects, workshops and practices, as well as nurtured radical discussions, but also cultivated a profound listening community, to which the bureau remains committed.

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Bureau for Listening is working toward co-organizing a Listening Academy in Copenhagen sometime in the future.

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We wonder how ‘The Listening Academy’ itself is a listening practice; a research methodology and a kind of work that slowly, but profoundly, changes the world? What does it mean to ‘do an academy’ – what ethics, aesthetics and  mode of (non)production does it pursue?

What kind of listening academies does the present call for, and what kind of academies do we need to reimagine and dream up other futures and communities?

Description/framework of the academy by The Listening Biennial:

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