Multiple dates

[The Listening Biennial] The LAB

By The Listening Biennial - Singapore

Activated as a co-learning laboratory, The LAB invites collective imagining of ways of practicing and carrying the third within us.

Location

LASALLE College of the Arts

1 McNally Street Singapore, 187940 Singapore

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Highlights

7 hours
ALL AGES
In person
Paid venue parking

About this event

The Listening Biennial 2025

The LAB @ LASALLE College to the Arts, University of the Arts

Dates:10 to 15 Sep

Venue: LASALLE College of the Arts

1 McNally St 187940

Galleries: To be announced

Gallery Hours:

10 to 11 Sep: 12 PM to 7 PM

12 to 13 : Sep: 12 PM to 10 PM

14 to 15 Sep: 12 PM to 7 PM

The gallery spaces will be activated as a co-learning laboratory, inviting collective imagining of ways of practicing, transmitting and carrying the third within us. The LAB offers a dedicated space for audience agency, who are invited to respond to the audio collection and other exhibited works via narration, translation and other creative forms. Traces and responses recorded during the course of the LAB will be compiled and published as a glossary of Third Listening.

The LAB unfolds around three key themes:

1. social repair and restorative practices

→ considering communication and empathetic gaps within society

2. aural diversity and diversely abled positions

→ considering practices to further and deepen inclusiveness in our society

3. ecological and planetary attunement

→ considering channels to develop ecological sensitivity to planetary sustainability

Participating Artists:

Rachel S.Y Chen with Wheelsmith and Sky Shen (Singapore), Chong Li-Chuan (Singapore), Chu Chu Yuan (Malaysia), Nicky Dumapit (The Philippines), Hear & Found (Singapore), Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmar), Lynn Nandar Htoo (Myanmar), Jade Johnson (UK), Jay Koh (Singapore/Germany), Adeline Kueh (Malaysia/Singapore), Okui Lala, Ana Estrada, Nasrikah (Malaysia/Australia/Indonesia), Terence Lau (Singapore), Isabelle Lim (Singapore) with Grace Lee-Khoo and Benedict Tay (Singapore), Jill J. Tan, Natalia Tan (Singapore), Susie Wong (Singapore), Superlative Futures (Singapore), Woo Yen Yen (Singapore), Daniel Wong (Singapore) with almuni from LASALLE College of the Arts

Artworks Images (Photo Credit): Superlative Futures

The LAB Public Programmes

Fri, 12 Sep 2025

6.30 PM to 8.30 PM

Eat by Ear Podcast Launch by Woo Yen Yen, Venue to be announced

Sat, 13 Sep 2025

12.00 PM - 1.30 PM

Meet-the-Artists Reception

1.30 PM to 6.30 PM

Listening Sessions (Artists Presentations), Flexible Performance Space

Featuring presentations by artists Okui Lala, Nasrikah and Ana Estrada, Superlative Futures, Isabelle Lim with Grace Lee-Khoo and Benedict Tay, Rachel S.Y Chen, Chong Li-Chuan

7.30 PM to 9.30 PM

Sound Jam, Astroturf, Campus Green, Astroturf, L1

Sun, 14 Sep

2.00 PM – 5.00 PM

Wayfaring/Wayfinding: The works and practice of Chu Chu Yuan, Flexible Performance Space

Featuring presentations by artists Susie Wong, Jay Koh with invited respondents, art therapist Daniel Wong and anthropologist Jill J. Tan

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.

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

Organized by

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/

Free