Wait and Hear

Multi-disciplinary artist group Wait and Hear will lead a participatory event on ecological listening on 8th October 2024. This event will start at Sound Art Lab, with the group guiding visitors through some of Struer’s environments and demonstrating strategies to engage with the more-than-human world through various sound and listening practices.
The group will share findings from their research from fieldwork conducted in Skagen, Denmark; Kilpisjärvi, Finland; and Steindalen valley, Norway; discussing their experiences of interacting with these environments and perceived links between sound and climate change.

Wait and Hear is an international and interdisciplinary group of artists and researchers exploring ecological listening. Our fieldwork explores relations between sound and environment, emphasising multispecies ethics, ecological listening practices, and human/other-than-human tensions. Our group formed in 2023 as part of Field Notes: The North Escaping in Kilpisjärvi, Finland, where we investigated connections between sound and climate change in the subarctic region. Wait and Hear comprises anthropologist Alicja Staniszewska, artist-researcher Bartaku, social designer and researcher Jan Christian Schulz, artist Joshua Le Gallienne, multidisciplinary artist Mari Mäkiö and artist, researcher and educator Till Bovermann.

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.