QUESTIONS FOR LISTENING Vol. V

QUESTIONS FOR LSITENING VOL. V

Questions as poetic reflective documentation from our Online International Reading Group for Listening Sessions

Rather than documenting each reading group through a summary of what was said or what was learned, we gather the questions that emerge from the collective reading, listening and discussion. The reading group is conceived as a space for doubts, wonderings and shared attention, oriented towards the questions and potentials opened by a text rather than towards arriving at a “correct” understanding.

These questions, offered by the participants in the chat, become a form of poetic and reflective documentation: traces of what was heard, what resonated, what remained unresolved, and what participants carried with them from the encounter. They do not attempt to represent the session in full, but hold something of its collective movement of thought.

Accumulating from one gathering to the next, the questions form an evolving archive of listening; one that remains open rather than conclusive, and that can be returned to, carried elsewhere, or listened through again.

Session I – 18th of August 2026, hosted with Peter Meanwell and Lydgalleriet

What does silence mean, or how do we redefine it, if listening is in relation to the nonhuman?

 

What responsibilities arise when we understand listening as participatory and as placing us within a relation?

 

How are the unpleasurable and unresolved things-listened-to left with agency?

 

How can performance be a way to reclaim our voice?

 

How to engage with “just” listening and not taking notes while reading together?

 

How to trust my body to remember and be a vehicle of learning and knowledge with others?

 

Listening as witness without judgement or comment on the other – how to encourage this?

 

What is the power of collective listening?

 

What is the power of listening without judgement to the other?

 

In the practice of listening, and in terms of hearing versus listening, in a world where we are bombarded by sound, what are the limits to listening and hearing?

 

How do we choose what we hear and listen to?

 

How do we listen to lands and environments we don’t come from in ethical ways?

 

What moves through us when we listen and exchange sound?

 

How can we listen to the inconvenient?