THE LISTENING BIENNIAL

THE LISTENING BIENNIAL 2025 - ON THIRD LISTENING FIREFLY FREQUENCIES BECOMING THIRD RADIO “So many stars are twinkling above me that I can hear them. I listen to their hum, countless voices whispering in my ear. I can imagine what they’re saying to me. I’m carrying the whole universe on my shoulders. We all do, all of us.” (Nona Fernández, "Voyager") This special firefly series hosts the works selected for the third edition of The Listening Biennial, inviting 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. While our terrestrial, material existence demands increasingly committed forms of engagement, the cosmic voices above may continue to offer guidance in becoming-relatives. To look up is to listen out