‘The Listening Biennial’ is a decentered and cooperative project, which seeks to develop a stronger listening culture, fostering openness and empathetic action through the concept of ‘Third Listening,’ a way that is active and attentive to the unconscious. Exploring the sound worlds of diverse places and people, it establishes relationships with the needs of different cultures and communities

With the aim of fostering the transformative power of listening, this installation invites the public to participate in a journey filled with poetic voices, stories, sounds and songs.

As a framework, ‘Third Listening’ has been developed through workshops, conversations and collaborative testing over the past year, involving many contributors and interlocutors in different places and contexts. It is a listening done together and in spite of exclusionary systems, lending to acts of dialogue and the living ethics that support diverse abilities.

Features artists, musicians, researchers and activists whose works give expression to the intersubjective and interdependent, animating the specters and stories of planetary coexistence. These are elaborated through a multi-faceted programme of exhibition presentations, listening situations, intimate gatherings, discursive and performance events, and explorative workshops taking place across 25 locations over two months, including Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Taipei, Berlin, and Belgrade.