What if listeners ran the world?
Over three days, artists and residents of Brussels gather to explore listening as a political and poetic act. The broadcast is a live unfolding of their collective process — part composition, part conversation, carried by the immediacy of radio. Transmitting directly from the temporary community of the winter school at GC De Rinck, The Listening Field turns listening into a public gesture: a way of thinking aloud with the city, and inviting others to join the dialogue in real time by listening.
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Eszter Némethi is a Hungarian theatre maker and researcher based in Brussels. Her work explores the interplay between language, listening and political imagination, often through participatory formats that create space for quiet and polyphonic expression. She leads the long-running initiative School of Magical Politics and in 25/26 the research cycle Geology of the Real, which focuses on memory, recall and the ethics of listening in performance. She graduated from a.pass and her work has been presented in Ireland and Belgium among others.
Julia E. Dyck is a Canadian artist and hypnotherapist living in Brussels. She works with sound, performance and expanded states of consciousness, exploring listening as an instrument for collective transformation. In her practice, she uses voice, vibrations and stories to open porous boundaries between body, technology and the subconscious. Her recent projects relate to queer ecologies and psychoacoustics.