[The Listening Biennial] The LAB x LASALLE College of the Arts

The Listening Biennial 2025 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: Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Praxis Space and Project Space

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

Download: Exhibition Guide

Presented by McNally School of Fine Arts, in collaboration with Diploma in Theatre Production and Management

Curated by artist Alecia Neo and co-programmed with publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books

Special thanks to McNally School of Fine Arts, Lasalle College of the Arts – University of the Arts for this collaborative partnership with the Listening Biennial enabled by: Dr. Cissie Fu, McNally School of Fine Arts, Head of School and Hazel Lim, Programme Leader, BA(Hons) Fine Arts.

This third edition of the Listening Biennial takes shape through the concept of Third Listening, which, imagined as a form of interstitial listening intent on sensing and staying with the different urgencies spanning cultural and material worlds, emphasises intersubjectivity and interdependence. Done together and despite exclusionary systems, Third Listening enables acts of speaking-with and embodied living ethics that support diverse abilities, thus holding the tension inherent to hospitality, where coexistence requires the continuous struggle, imagination, courage and protection. From contending with current polarisations to honouring the shared vitality of planetary life, such interstitial listening follows the pulse of a thick relationality that defines contemporary experience.

Listening Biennial LAB at LASALLE is a co-learning laboratory, inviting collective imagining of pathways to practise, transmit and carry the third within us. The LAB offers a dedicated space for audience agency: we are invited to respond to the Listening Biennial audio exhibition, which includes works by six LASALLE Fine Arts alumni, via narration, translation and alternative creative forms. Traces and responses recorded during the course of the LAB will be compiled and published as a glossary of Third Listening, which 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), 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, Ana Osprey (Russia), Chok Si Xuan (Singapore), Lokman Mohamad (Singapore), Billie Sng (Singapore), Zheng Jialei (Singapore) and Danial Shafiq (Singapore).

Our heartfelt appreciation to Adeline Chia, Jay Koh, Faye Lim, Charlene Rajendran, Lynn Sim, Jennifer Teo, Chu Lik Ren, Sharaad Kuttan and Grey Yeoh for the loan of Chu Chu Yuan’s artworks.

Artworks Images (Photo Credit): Superlative Futures

The LAB Public Programmes

Fri, 12 Sep 2025

6.30 PM – 8.30 PM, Opening of The Listening Biennial LAB

6.30 pm Opening reception begins @ Brother Joseph McNally Gallery

7.00 pm Opening speech by Alecia Neo (Curator, Listening Biennial 2025) with Ng Kah Gay (Co-programmer and Publisher, Ethos Books)

7.05 pm Welcome speech by Dr Cissie Fu (Head of School, McNally School of Fine Arts)

7.10 pm Introduction and launch of Eat by Ear Podcast by Dr Woo Yen Yen (Programme Leader, MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice), with culinary experts K.F. Seetoh (Makansutra) and Jason Koh (Serangoon Market Kway Chap)

7.15 pm Listening party of Eat by Ear Episode 2

7.45 pm Panel discussion and Q&A: Yen Yen × KF Seetoh × Jason Koh

8.10 pm Kway Chap Resonance, by second-year BA Music Composition students Lok Chew Ru, Keith Lew, and Adam Sim, mentored by Belinda Foo, followed by Ode to Pig, in Teochew by Yakuza Baby and sing-along

8.20 pm Closing announcement by Alecia Neo and Hazel Lim (Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Fine Arts)

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), Brother Joseph McNally Gallery

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

Hosted by Terence Lau, Lecturer from Diploma of Theatre Production and Management, feat. invited artists.

Sun, 14 Sep

2.00 PM – 5.00 PM

Wayfaring/Wayfinding: The works and practice of Chu Chu Yuan, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery

Featuring presentations by artists Susie Wong, Prof.Dr. 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.

The curators of the Listening Biennial, Third Edition are Alecia Neo, Soledad García Saavedra, Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle.

Launched for the first time in Singapore, the Singapore edition is curated by artist Alecia Neo and co-programmed with publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books.

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/