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The Bureau for Listening is expanding its exploration of listening as an artistic and collaborative practice through a new international online reading group that brings together artists, researchers and cultural institutions from around the world. Built around shared reading, discussion and attentive listening, the initiative creates a space where participants can collectively engage with ideas across sound, performance, philosophy and contemporary art while building an international community of exchange.
Founded in 2021 by Danish artists and researchers Lukas Quist Lund, Amalie Sejersdahl and Randi Lindholm Hansen, Bureau for Listening is a nomadic artist and research collective that explores listening as an artistic, social and critical practice. Working across philosophy, performance, sound and visual art, the collective approaches listening as something that shapes relationships, communities and ways of experiencing the world. Its projects range from Listening Hotlines and public workshops to reading rooms, residencies, publications and a growing library dedicated to sound studies and listening practices. The Bureau treats listening as an open-ended field that continues to evolve through research, artistic experiments and collaborations. Their work has now expanded into a new international initiative that brings together artists, researchers and institutions through a shared practice of reading and listening.
Beginning this August, the Bureau will launch a bi-monthly Online International Reading Group for Listening, building on the reading group it previously developed with the Laboratory for Sound at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The programme is designed as a collaborative online space where participants from around the world gather to read texts aloud together before opening the floor to discussion. No advance preparation is required, allowing everyone to engage with the material in the moment. The conversations are guided by curiosity, shared reflections and unanswered questions, encouraging participants to spend time with different ideas and perspectives while treating listening as a collective way of learning.
Each session will be hosted by a different international partner organisation, with the host selecting a text that reflects its own approach to listening. The 2026–27 programme brings together a wide network of institutions, including Lydgalleriet in Bergen, CRiSAP in London, aifoon in Ghent, Rapt Space operating between Brussels and Tehran, OTO Sound Museum in Zürich, and Uncanny Stations in New Delhi, an experimental framework and physical/discursive space by Suvani Suri exploring aural archives, acoustic ecologies, and sonic practices. Together, these organisations represent practices spanning sound art, research, performance and experimental publishing while creating conversations that move across disciplines and geographies. According to the organisers, more details about the first reading session, hosted by Lydgalleriet in Bergen, will be announced ahead of its August launch.
Through this new international format, the Bureau for Listening hopes to grow a distributed community connected through shared reading, discussion and attentive listening. The project brings together people from different artistic and academic backgrounds while giving equal importance to conversations and collective inquiry. As each partner introduces its own texts and methods, the reading group will continue to expand through new voices and new collaborations, carrying forward the Bureau's long-term interest in listening as an evolving artistic and social practice.
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