Together with curator of Indigenous Art, Liisa-Rávná Finbog, artist Carmel Alabbasi and scholar/artist Emma Arnold will discuss the act of listening, and how sound may be perceived in a variety of ways.

In the Sámi poem, Jearrat Biekkas/To Ask the Wind, Nils Aslak Valkeapää explains that to ask the wind is an act of curious listening. Inspired by Valkeapää, Jearrat Biekkas/To Ask the Wind encourages reflections that look into landscapes of sound, asking how art may facilitate both the labour and the politics of listening.

Engaging in the active labour of listening, this conversation suggests that the act of listening is not exclusive to auditory expressions. Founded on a Sámi understanding, listening is instead understood as receiving information from multiple mediations, including the encounters between people, meanings, and actions. In this way, ideas and beliefs that are shaped by visual registers may be included alongside sounds.