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Newsletter #37

From Listening Event (I-IV) during Bureau for Listening’s Testing Ground at AHC, Spring 2024.

Dear reader,

As we slow down before summer begins in earnest, we’re reflecting on the past six months. One recurring intermezzo was the artist collective Bureau for Listening’s Testing Ground program, which spanned four weeks at Halmtorvet.

Focusing on listening as a fundamental practice for life and art, Bureau for Listening’s research explored how listening can offer a meaningful artistic and critical practice amid increasing polarization, climate catastrophe, and political fatigue and revolt: an active sanctuary not about occupying space, defining and delimiting, but about offering space and practice for reflection and care.

Throughout the spring, Bureau for Listening invited the public to four themed events. At each event, a new professional guest stepped into the Bureau for Listening’s space of thinking to push, expand, float along, and challenge. Each listening event was a moment for gathering and sharing, and an opportunity to exchange practices, knowledge, questions, and curiosity – a chance to celebrate and promote listening.

In the letter you’re about to read, Bureau for Listening welcome you into their listening practice through five fragments, each serving as a kind of invitation to listen, both documenting and extending the spaces and moments shared within Testing Ground at AHC.

Happy reading and listening, and have a wonderful summer!

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