Listening Biennal Venice 2025

Curated by Brandon LaBelle and Piersandra Di Matteo

October 22–24, 2025

The Listening Biennial is a nomadic research and artistic initiative investigating listening as a relational capacity, method, tool, poetics, and creative practice. Its Venice edition is realized through the collaboration of SSH! Sound Studies Hub, the Laboratorio di Curatela at Università Iuav di Venezia, Scuola Piccola Zattere, and bruno.

October 22
bruno | Book launch | 6:30 pm

Listening Biennial Reader vol. II. Infra-listening (Errant Bodies Press)
edited by Rebecca Collins and Brandon LaBelle
Brandon LaBelle in conversation with Francesco Bergamo, Nicola di Croce, Piersandra Di Matteo

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October 23
Iuav Teatro e Arti performative  
Aula A | Terese | 4:30 pm

I listen therefore we are
Curatorial laboratory for Collective Listening by Ilaria Gadenz

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October 24
Iuav Teatro e Arti performative
Aula B | Terese | 10 am

Crip listening
Seminar by Brandon LaBelle and Piersandra Di Matteo

Scuola Piccola Zattere
Listening futures
An evening of experimental sound and listening performances

6:30 pm
Brandon LaBelle | Listening Panel 
Open conversation on listening memories

7:30 pm | Listening Screening 
Oficina de Autonomia, Deaf Flowers (2024)
Israel Martínez & Dalia Huerta Cano, Gratitude, summer (2025)
Max Bloching, Ground Practice (2025)
Annette le Fort, J’aime ma caméra parce que j’aime vivre (2006)

8:30 pm | performance 
June Yu, Polyphony Reading

9:00 pm | performance 
Aliaskar Abarkas, La La La La La La By
Slip / Less / Less / Less / Less / Nyte

The Listening Biennial in Venice is sustained through the collaboration of Scuola Piccola Zattere, SSH! Sound Studies Hub, Curatorial Laboratory of Università Iuav di Venezia, and bruno.

Foto: Maria Giovanna Sodero