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Third Edition – August 21-October 26, 2025
Official Website: https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition
Audio Exhibition curated by 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.
An Invite into Third Listening
For the Singapore edition, we practise Third Listening as deep empathy for all lifeforms. Thich Nhat Hanh’s concept of interbeing, as expressed in The Other Shore, suggests that all things are interconnected, and by recognising this, we can overcome the illusion of separateness that fuels misunderstanding and division.
Exploring various forms of attunement and communication between humans and with non-human kin, the artists and their works become vessels for sounding―to remember, to resist and to repair. Through the perspectives and positions of the artists, as witnesses, facilitators and guides, carers, diasporic individuals, we encounter histories, languages and lived experiences that refuse to be flattened or made invisible by dominant narratives or changing landscapes. Attending to the blindspots, noise and crevices in our urban lives and architecture, their works touch and stay with the spaces between and within bodies, embracing an ecological politics where movement and relation continuously reorient us beyond predetermined labels (Erin Manning, Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance).
As a highlight 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.
Participating Artists & Creatives (Singapore Edition):
Rachel S.Y Chen with Wheelsmith and Sky Shen (Singapore), Chong Li-Chuan (Singapore), Chu Chu Yuan (Malaysia), cat cortes (Singapore), Nicky Dumapit (The Philippines), Hear & Found (Singapore), Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmar), Lynn Nandar Htoo (Myanmar), Jade Johnson (UK), Jay Koh (Singapore/Germany), Theophilus Kwek (Singapore), Chef Kuah Kai Wen (Singapore), Adeline Kueh (Singapore/Malaysia), Okui Lala, Ana Estrada and Nasrikah (Malaysia/Australia/Indonesia), Terence Lau (Singapore), Isabelle Lim (Singapore), Grace Lee-Khoo (Singapore), Benedict Tay (Singapore), John McAuliffe (Ireland), Sanat Mehta (India), Mok Zining (Singapore), Aine Nakamura (US/Japan), Natalia Tan (Singapore), Esther Vincent (Singapore), Susie Wong (Singapore), Superlative Futures (Singapore), Woo Yen Yen (Singapore) and alumni from LASALLE College of the Arts
Ticketing: eventbrite
Artwork & Programmes Catalogue: Download
Singapore Night Festival
Dates: 22 Aug – 6 Sep 2025
Various Locations: Tue to Sun – 7:30 PM to 11 PM
Closed on Mon
Except for Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film: 22 Aug – 28 Sep 2025
Tue & Wed 12 PM – 7 PM
Thurs – Sun 12 PM – 10 PM
Exhibition Locations:
42 Waterloo Street (42WS): Listening Biennial Audio Exhibition (various artists), including Superlative Futures (Singapore), Rachel S.Y. Chen with Wheelsmith and Sky Shen (Singapore), Isabelle Lim (Singapore)
Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film (OC): Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmmar), Okui Lala, Ana Estrada and Nasrikah (Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia), Festival Bookshop
Stamford Arts Centre (SAC): Hear & Found (Thailand) Listening Pods by Centre 42
Waterloo Centre (WC): Chong Li-Chuan (Singapore)
Public Engagements & Live Performances by Artists:
Fri, 22 Aug
7:30 PM – 10:10 PM, Silent Studio, Isabelle Lim (Singapore), 42WS Black Box
Sat, 23 Aug
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Opening Reception, 42WS Courtyard
7:30 PM – 10:10 PM, Silent Studio, Isabelle Lim (Singapore), 42WS Black Box
8.30 PM – 9:15 PM Performing Reverence, Sanat Mehta (India), performance, SAC
8.30 PM – 9.30 PM, DJ stims at My tiny space, Rachel S.Y. Chen, Wheelsmith and Sky Shen (Singapore), artist interaction, 42WS Rehearsal Studio
Wed, 27 Aug
7:30 PM – 9 PM A Rustle in the Pages: Listening in the World of Words, John McAuliffe (Ireland), Mok Zining and Theophilus Kwek (Singapore), poetry talk, 42WS Black Box
Fri, 29 Aug
5 PM – 6 PM
Listening Tour: I hear you, you hear me (Listening while coexisting), guided by Saskia Alifya
Listening Tour: the distance to a lost sound, guided by Isabelle Tay
7 PM – 8.30 PM 凯 · 味 Dinner at Kai’s by Chef Kuah Kai Wen (Singapore), hosted by cat cortes at Practice Tuckshop
7.30 PM – 10.30 PM New Practices for Tidal Attunement: Guided Walk, Superlative Futures (Singapore), performance, 42WS Courtyard
Sat, 30 Aug
2 PM – 4 PM, On Any Given Day: A Soundwalk at Hong Lim Complex, Chong Li-Chuan (Singapore)
7 PM – 8 PM On Any Given Day: An Ode to Waterloo, Chong Li-Chuan (Singapore), performance, Waterloo Centre
7 PM – 8.30 PM 凯 · 味 Dinner at Kai’s by Chef Kuah Kai Wen (Singapore), hosted by cat cortes at Practice Tuckshop
8.30PM – 9.30 PM i. womb song, ii. love is the song, Esther Vincent (Singapore) & Aine Nakamura (US/Japan), poetry reading, voice and movement performance, 42WS Black Box
Sun, 31 Aug
2 PM – 4 PM Field Recording Workshop, Hear & Found (Thailand), Objectifs, Lower Gallery, Level 2
7.30 PM – 10 PM, Mapping Ancestry, Jade Johnson (UK), workshop, 42WS Inner Courtyard
Fri, 5 Sep
7:30 PM – 10:10 PM, Silent Studio, Isabelle Lim (Singapore), 42WS Black Box
Sat, 6 Sep
5 PM – 6 PM
Listening Tour: I hear you, you hear me (Listening while coexisting), guided by Saskia Alifya
Listening Tour: the distance to a lost sound, guided by Isabelle Tay
7:30 PM – 10:10 PM, Silent Studio, Isabelle Lim, 42WS Black Box
Dates: 10 – 15 Sep 2025
Opening 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
Venue: LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts
Galleries: Brother Joseph McNally, Praxis Space and Project Space
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.
Public Programmes:
Fri, 12 Sep
6.30 PM – 8.30 PM, Eat by Ear Podcast Launch, Woo Yen Yen, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery
Featuring a conversation with culinary experts K.F. Seetoh (Makansutra) and Jason Koh (Serangoon Market Kway Chap) and Kway Chap Resonance, by second-year BA Music Composition students Lok Chew Ru, Keith Lew, and Adam Sim, mentored by Belinda Foo.
Sat, 13 Sep
12 PM – 1.15 PM Meet-the-artist reception, hosted by Alecia Neo and Ng Kah Gay with exhibiting artists, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery
1.30 PM – 6.30 PM Listening Sessions (Artist Presentations), Brother Joseph McNally Gallery
Featuring 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
Sat, 13 Sep, 7.30 PM – 9.30 PM, Sound Jam, hosted by Terence Lau, Campus Green, Astroturf L1
Sun, 14 Sep
2 PM – 5 PM, Wayfaring/Wayfinding: The works and practice of Chu Chu Yuan, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery
Featuring speakers Susie Wong, Jay Koh with invited respondents, Daniel Wong and Jill J. Tan.
Listening Circle
Dates: 17 – 18 Oct 2025
Venue: Flexible Performance Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts
Designed for mutual learning and exchange between participants, the Listening Circle offers talks, participatory experiences and workshops by diverse practitioners who share methods, practices and knowledge on listening, care, and collaboration.
Facilitators to be announced soon.
To apply as a participant, sign up here: https://forms.gle/shGrgcZWDUcpMAWm8
Acknowledgments
Listening Biennial Singapore Team
Curator: Alecia Neo
Co-programmers: Alecia Neo and Ng Kah Gay
Project Assistants: Hoong Wei Long and Zheshi Afandi
Gallery Assistants: Alisha Jamshaid, Joey Leung, Zheng Qinlei Sarah
Listening Tours: Saskia Alifya and Isabelle Tay
Documentation: Madhumaya Anandan Kumaran and Isabelle Tay
Editorial Advisors: Ng Kah Gay and Jill J. Tan
Official Photographers: Poh Yu Khing and Hoong Wei Long
Marketing & Social Media: Hoong Wei Long, Zheshi Afandi and Nur Ashserina
Designer: June Lin
Our heartfelt gratitude to our funders, sponsors and partners:
