Situated Sonic Climate Fiction

Applied Ecological Listening #2

Part of a workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Yuri Tuma and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening.

Details

Time: 17. September. 2025, 15:30-17:30

OBS: Please arrive in good time, as it takes up to 15 minutes to walk from the metro to the site inside Amager Fælled. 

Place: Amager Fælled, meeting point along one of the main paths close to the little northern lake, please meet at the coordinates: (55.6584120, 12.5807368) – at Island Brygge Metro st.  someone with a flag saying: LISTEN, can provide a bit of guidance if you come in good time.

To bring: A bottle of water, and clothing according to the weather as we will be outside. 

Contact number: 0045 40212007 / bureauforlistening@gmail.com

Organizer: Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE) and Bureau for Listening. The event is part of The Listening Biennial programme in Copenhagen running through September and October.

Situated Sonic Climate Fictions
Do you dream in sound? When we imagine a noise or read about it, do we truly hear it? Expanding the ways we listen begins with asking what sound truly is. Is it just the friction of matter vibrating at frequencies our ears and body can detect, or can it also be the resonance of memory, emotions and anticipation within us? In Situated Sonic Climate Fictions, we will explore how imagined sounds come alive through both storytelling and shared listening. Sonic narratives can attune us to our private resonances, cultural soundscapes, and acoustic experiences. Set in Amager Fælled—with its layered military history, endangered wildlife, and human-crafted boundaries—this workshop will inspire us to imagine potential relationships within its environment. Does a frog’s croak ring the same in my mind as in yours? Through collective imagination exercises, we will kindle the creative spark for potential future sonic climate fictions for the park that gathers us.

Applied Ecological Listening is a three-part series of outdoor workshops and lectures that invites artists, researchers, and members of the public to explore listening as an embodied and situated ecological practice. Hosted at Amager Fælled—a now protected natural area shaped by a layered history of military use, landfilling, and ongoing care and struggle—the programme unfolds within a landscape that embodies the call to explore listening in search of a reorientation toward ecological transformation, resistance, and resilience.

The programme asks: how might we listen differently in a time of climate crisis and ecological transformation? What kind of applied ecological listening does our time require? How can we cultivate a mode of attention attuned not only to what is voiced and sounding, but also to what is silenced, omitted, or unheard? Applied Ecological Listening is an invitation to shift the dominant logics of perception—away from extractive seeing, knowing, and naming—toward a practice of being-with, sensing-with, and listening-with the entangled worlds we inhabit.

Through a series of field-based and experimental lectures, workshops, and collective reflections, the series approaches listening not only as a sensory mode, but as a critical method for attuning to the complex entanglements of ecological life—practicing listening as a way of noticing relations across species, histories, and material traces; of sensing what is present, what is not known, and what is yet to be heard.

Over the course of the series, Bureau for Listening will facilitate the gathering and production of various outputs and forms of documentation, in collaboration with the invited ‘speakers’ and participants—for example, an Applied Ecological Listening Manifesto, listening prompts, and poetic fragments—which will be published at the end of the series

Yuri Tuma is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist living in Madrid, where he co-founded the Institute for Postnatural Studies and practices as its Academic and Artistic Co-Director. Yuri’s practice focuses on the investigation of contemporary narratives related to sonic ecologies through collective healing practices, active listening, sound art, installation, and performance. In early 2020, he co-founded the Institute for Postnatural Studies (IPS) in Madrid, a platform that focuses on the relationship between contemporary artistic practice and the necessary revision of the concept of nature. In addition to participating in residencies and coordinating workshops around interspecies thinking and sound ecologies, Yuri has worked with educational and mediation programs at Spanish and international institutions such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Matadero Madrid, HEAD Géneve, Berlinale, Fundación Mar Adentro, School of Commons, La Casa Encendida, among others. Within IPS, he also actively shapes the editorial route of Cthulhu Books, an editorial platform to showcase the political potential of imagining new worlds and possible futures for the planet through academic and artistic research.

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.

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Documentation

We will update this site after the event with different forms of ‘documentation’ and extended material gathered and produced in relation to the spiral lecture.