Listening Tour: the distance to a lost sound
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Listening Tour: the distance to a lost sound

A guided sound-based walking experience exploring pathways to listening with care and intention while holding space for difference.

By The Listening Biennial - Singapore

Location

Arts Resource Hub (Inner Courtyard, Level 1), 42 Waterloo Street, S187951

42 Waterloo Street Singapore, 187951 Singapore

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No refunds

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About this event

  • Paid venue parking

Listening Tour: the distance to a lost sound

Friday, 29 August & Saturday, 6 September

5pm - 6pm

Arts Resource Hub (Front Courtyard), 42 Waterloo Street, S187951

Co-presented by The Listening Biennial, a highlight of The Singapore Night Festival

Audio Sponsor: DITA Audio

To listen is to attune — to one another, to place, to what is unheard.

This sound-based walking experience is an invitation to listen with care and intention as a way of being with others, while holding space for difference. You will encounter a series of sound works from the Listening Biennial audio exhibition, unfolding in a rhythm that mirrors a journey inward. We begin with the familiar, slip into emotionally textured terrains, and conclude in an ambience of suspension.

Together, we consider: Whose voices have been drowned beneath noise, not because they were silent, but because we hadn’t known to listen?

Artwork Image Credit: Čhoakkeladd, Payam-e-Čhoakkeladd (Kashmiri for Message of the wounded) (2025)

About your guide:

Isabelle Tay is an aspiring curator and art historian, studying at LASALLE College of the Arts. Rooted in the belief that art should be accessible in both form and feeling, she is drawn to ways art moves between the intimate everyday and the imagined, and believes in its quiet power to hold space for healing, reclamation, and uplifting voices unheard. Her curatorial interests include the emotional and conceptual terrain of memory in visual culture, ecofeminist ways of relating and understanding, and the porous resonances between film and contemporary art.

Participant Notes:

  • The tour will begin on time at 5pm. Please arrive at least 10 minutes earlier, so that the tour may begin and end on schedule for everyone.
  • Meeting point: Arts Resource Hub (Front Courtyard), 42 Waterloo Street, S187951
  • End point: Stamford Arts Centre
  • Total distance covered: 0.7km (estimated)
  • Please dress comfortably for the outdoors and wear suitable footwear for walking longer distances. At certain points during the tour, participants may also be invited to sit on the ground.
  • Please bring along an umbrella or poncho in case of wet weather, as the walk will continue in light rain.
  • You may wish to bring the following items: water (to stay hydrated), insect repellent, a cap and/or sunscreen.

Accessibility:

While we aim to provide accessibility wherever possible, please note that this is a structured walking tour with a significant distance to cover. If you have any accessibility concerns or requirements, do let us know in advance so that we may do our best to support you, within the limits of the tour’s planned course.

Kindly fill in this form: https://forms.gle/wEyUNipnVHfEhiaS8

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Our photographer may be taking photos and videos. By attending this programme, you consent to be photographed or filmed.

About The Listening Biennial

Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognising its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

Read more: https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition

Singapore Edition: https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/

Frequently asked questions

What will happen in the event of heavy rain?

In the case of heavy rain, the group will take shelter in a designated building nearby. The tour will continue with a wet weather plan, adapted for a sheltered setting.

Is there a recommended age group for this tour?

This tour is best suited for older teenagers and adults, as it is designed as a quiet, reflective experience held in a small group of 5 participants. While younger participants are welcome, children will need to be accompanied by a supervising adult, who should also register for the tour.

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The Listening Biennial - Singapore

About The Listening Biennial

The Listening Biennial focuses on listening as a creative practice, and on building listening cultures and knowledge. Its decentred format encourages collaboration and simultaneous presentations with partner institutions and spaces, involving a network of practitioners and organisations in different parts of the world.

Curated by: Soledad García Saavedra, Alecia Neo and Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle.

https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition

An Invite into Third Listening

The third edition of The Listening Biennial invites us to tune into the humming stars above and the countless voices they carry. These are voices of love and loss, voices that hold the past while evoking a future, and that resound with mystery and force, threading cosmic matter and embodied life with their potent stories. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

The Singapore edition is co-programmed by artist Alecia Neo and publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books.

For the full programme in Singapore, visit:

https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/

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