Exercises in Togetherness: Listening to the nonhuman

The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York's Exercises in Togetherness program continues with an online listening session on the Withstanding podcast platform, and in the company of curator Alaina Claire Feldman, artist and musician Miho Hatori, artist Josefina Nelimarkka and host Elina Suoyrjö. Aligning with recent and on-going work of the speakers, the session focuses on the practices of listening to nonhuman entities below and above sea levels. The discussion is a collaboration with the Mishkin Gallery.

How can we draw on non-visual observations of nature and science to register and account for the non-human and our inevitable coexistence? What kinds of listening practices can bring us closer to understanding and empathizing with various non-human beings and entities around us?

This episode is accompanied by Josefina Nelimarkka's essay Listening to the nonhuman: Sounds of air. In her essay, Nelimarkka elaborates on the topics of the podcast discussion in relation to her artistic practice and research. Please find the essay here: https://bit.ly/3FxNP7r

Exercises in Togetherness is kindly supported by New York State Council on the Arts.