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Building on the existing Reading Group for Listening initiated by the Bureau for Listening and the Laboratory for Sound at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, this reading group expands the format into an international, collaborative online group for shared study and exchange around listening as an artistic, critical, and social practice.

The group will gather bi-monthly online, following the core principle of collective reading, listening and discussion: each session begins with a shared, aloud reading of a selected text (no preparation needed to participate), followed by an open discussion aiming more towards the questions and potentials of the text, rather than how to ‘understand correctly’. Spending time and attention together, listening to the text and each voices, while having a space for ones doubts and wonderings is the central vision for the reading group. This format emphasizes listening not only as a subject of inquiry but as a method of being together, cultivating attention, reflection, and co-learning across disciplines.

Each gathering will be hosted by a different international partner engaged in practices of listening, who will contribute by choosing and presenting a text for collective reading and frame the session through their situated approach to listening. In doing so, the project creates a rotating, distributed structure that reflects the plurality of listening practices across contexts.

The International Reading Group for Listening aims to foster a transdisciplinary and inclusive community, connecting diverse voices and perspectives while deepening the collective exploration of listening as a shared, evolving practice.