The Listener

Ongoing climate change, threatened biodiversity and a comprehensive need for global transition demand new methods for observing and understanding the ecological contexts, historical lines and non-human relationships we are all part of. Our ability to see ourselves in mutual relationships with other species and systems that do not distinguish and separate nature from culture is crucial for the future. To get there, we must sharpen our attention and approach that which we humans with our limited senses do not normally perceive – frequencies, signs and vibrations that make up nature’s own voices. The artists we have invited to Laholm all occupy positions where they engage in dialogue with nature: watercourses, plants, rivers and ecosystems. By doing so the artist forms a bridge between non-human communication and our own existential search. Because what does it mean to really listen to nature’s own voices? What sounds, choruses, tones, wills and stories emerge then? What stories do the forests and seas themselves draw? What do they say about us? In Laholm and around the world.

Through profound, interdisciplinary and locally anchored artistic methods, the invited artsist listen, sketch and shape new ideas about an existence in open dialogue and harmony. The works exhibited take  the form of  drawing, installation and video works.