PUBLICATIONS FOR LISTENING

What does the practice of publishing become, when applied and nurtured for sharing and investigating listening? How can publications care for and share, investigate and enable listening?

We will attempt as a bureau to develop and publish different publications for, on and as listening. These publications will be gathered here as a possible archive. Some of the publications will be published as ‘traditional’ printed matter, some online, some as live versions, and some as unique zines passed on between caretakers, others as works of art, as artists’ books – and others in yet unknown formats.

We strive for a soft and sensitive listening publication practice; one where printed matter is inviting touch and attention, experimenting with distribution and offering moments of pause and reflection.

A series of 20 zines were sampled as a documentation practice for the exhibition: 'A Living Room as a White Cube for Listening'.

Beside the list of publications below, we are also committed the following long term publishing projects:

Conversations for Listening, Questions for Listening, and Anthology for Listening.

sentences for listening

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2024, artists’ book

Proposals for Listening

2025, contribution to Almanac for Struer Tracks, curated by Zlata Pavlovskaia.

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Proposals for Listening: A Possible definition

A generative invitation to attune to sound, silence, and resonance as a way of being and relating. A proposal for listening is not merely a suggestion but a call to engage with listening as a mode and practice of reorienting one’s perception, connection, and understanding. It can manifest as an idea, an action, or a framework, expanding how we listen and what listening makes possible in communal, artistic, and everyday contexts.

Proposals for Listening are put forward seeking hopeful, curious and critical engagement with our world; creating through speculation or manifestation. Proposals for Listening is an art practice of Bureau for Listening.