kristina grigorjeva

SOMA
2023-2025
Monika Stalder, Ludwig Berger, Jessica Ecomane, Somatic Rituals, Raven Chacon , Tobias Maria Koch, Yen Chun Lin, LABOUR

The SOMA exhibition series is a result of a research that looks into the emancipatory and transformative potential of different listening practices and follows Sarah Ahmed’s reading of social relations in Queer Phenomonology as well as takes lessons from Pauliune Oliveros’ Quantum Listening; from the somatic, interceptive to the social body. 

Within the SOMA exhibition series we discuss concepts such as collective listening, bodies in space and more generally the way we listen; how listening can be used as a tool to address the ecological crisis and socio-political and environmental inequalities.

SOMA invites an “uncurating” of the exhibition context to create an emancipatory space for listening attentively to a multitude of voices, human and nonhuman, to rethink new modes of collaboration across difference; listening as a transformative social practice.