In English

From self-determination to social participation, somatic healing to collective repair, political recognition to ecological engagement, listening is supportive for negotiating our most fundamental challenges. Poetics of Listening considers listening to be not only important to social struggles, but also a form of poetic imagination and communion. It moves listening toward a broader application and view and challenges us to think more broadly about what it means to hear and be heard within today’s complex environments.

Ricarda Denzer, Art and Communication Practices, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Mariella Greil, Angewandte Performance Lab, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Brandon LaBelle, artistic director, The Listening Biennial, Berlin

Brandon LaBelle, Poetics of Listening: Inner Life, Social Transformation, Planetary Practices, New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2025

In cooperation with Angewandte Performance Lab – APL.

Jelena Micić’s artistic practice examines entanglements of labor, consumption, and the metabolic flows of capital. Engaging feminist materialism, post-socialist transitions, and the afterlives of industrial production, how can art render visible the toxic persistence of synthetic matter and the infrastructures of global value extraction? How might non-aligned histories disrupt hegemonic aesthetic and economic orders?

Jelena Micić, artist, Vienna
Elke Krasny, cultural theorist, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Kristin Romberg, art historian, University of Illinois, USA (online)
Heidrun Rosenberg, art historian, University of Vienna
Lorena Tabares Salamanca, writer, curator, Colombia / Portugal

Jelena Micić, Bojna polja, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst 2025