The Listening Biennial will be taking place at Errant Bodies, opening July 8th. The Listening Biennial is an international biennial focusing on listening as a practice and issue, bringing together commissioned audio works by a group of 30 artists from around the world. The works will be presented through an informal listening lounge, inviting audiences to spend time listening together.

July 8 – July 30 / Saturday & Sunday 13:00 – 18:00

Exhibition of audio works by Participating artists:

Nicolás Kisic Aguirre (Peru); Rouzbeh Akhbari (Iran); Ayọ̀ Akínwándé (Nigeria/UK); Yara Asmar (Lebanon); Aya Atoui (Lebanon); Teresa Barrozo (Philippines); Ariel Bustamante (Chile); Alejandra Canelas (Bolivia); Lucia Herbas Cordero (Bolivia); Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Bolivia); Tara Fatehi & Pouya Ehsaei (Iran/UK); Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti (Bolivia/Brazil); Victor Mazón Gardoqui (Spain); Jimena Croceri & Sara Hamdy (Argentina/Egypt); Abdellah M. Hassak (Morocco); Hasan Hujairi (Bahrain); Igor Jesus (Portugal); Jason Kahn (US/Switzerland); Dirar Kalash (Palestine); Arendse Krabbe (Denmark); Landra (Sara Rodrigues with Rodrigo B. Camacho) (Portugal); Yolanda Mamani Mamani (Bolivia); mamoru (Japan); Sary Moussa (Lebanon); Arnont Nongyao (Thailand); Ayumi Paul (Germany); Planetary Listening (Germany); Bernardo Rozzo (Bolivia); Griselda Sánchez (Mexico); Alexandre St-Onge (Canada); The Observatory (Singapore); Zorka Wollny (Poland)

Curated by: Rayya Badran, Guely Morato, Luísa Santos, Dayang Yraola with Brandon LaBelle

Plus Event Program:

Sharing stories on sound, music and listening – a series of conversations

July 16, 17:00 conversation with musician Alejandra Cárdenas 

@ Errant Bodies studio, Cotheniusstrasse 6, 10407 Berlin

Alejandra Cárdenas (aka Ale Hop) is a Peruvian-born artist. She began her career in the 2000s in Lima’s underground music scene. Her body of work includes diverse formats such as live shows, albums, multimedia artworks and research. Whether alone, maneuvering an intricate repertoire of electric guitar techniques, or collaborating with other artists, her live performances have an immersive and transcendental character. Last year she launched two collaborative practices: Agua Dulce, with percussionist Laura Robles, radically mutating Afro-Peruvian rhythms (recently picked as global album of the month by The Guardian), and with the sound artist Tatiana Heuman, experimenting with self-built South American clay instruments and storytelling. She also co-grounded the festival Radical Sounds Latin America (of which she was co-curator from 2019 to 2021) and, nowadays, initiated the editorial platform Contingent Sounds, aiming at facilitating critical discourses and artistic research. She has shown her work in spaces such as UNSOUND (2022), Sonic Acts (2022), CTM Festival (2022), Taiwan C-LAB (2022), REWIRE (2021), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2021), New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (2021), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2020), Somerset House Studios (2019), Heroines of Sound (2019), among others.

July 23, 17:00 conversation with artist Ayumi Paul

@ Errant Bodies studio, Cotheniusstrasse 6, 10407 Berlin

Ayumi Paul is an artist and composer who works with sound, performance, ritual, paper, textile, film and installation. The interdependency of all phenomena is essential to her practice, which is dedicated to listening and engaging the non-linearity of time. She trained as a classical violinist at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and Indiana University and performed at many of the world’s major concert halls for more than 15 years, while continuously developing her multi-disciplinary approach to exploring sound and consciousness. Paul’s work is today mostly presented within visual and performative art contexts, including Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2016 and 2020), National Gallery Singapore (2018 and 2021), SFMOMA (2021), Villa Massimo (2021), Auditorium Parco della Musica (2022), Gropius Bau Berlin (2022).