The event is free to attend. Please sign up in advance here:
https://cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar/2025/spiritual-listening/sign-up-for-applied-ecological-listening-3/
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Esoteric Listening–Can we listen without knowing? Can we hear the hidden, the divine, and the forces of nature?
Can we listen without knowing? Can we hear the hidden, the divine, and the forces of nature?
Several religious traditions emphasize the experience that the word of God is a sound — something to be recited and heard. It is through sound that the word becomes alive and can be perceived by the spiritual human being. In many spiritual
and occult traditions, there is also the belief that everything in nature is alive and carries its own sound or tone. Nature, as a whole, is understood as an organic network of hidden sonic connections.
But it doesn’t stop there. Certain sounds are said to open portals to other worlds and altered states of consciousness, while some intonations are believed to contain keys to nature’s magical forces — powers through which the world itself can be transformed. It is therefore not only a matter of being able to listen but of learning to listen in the right way.
With Tim Rudbøg.
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Applied Ecological Listening is a three-part series of outdoor workshops and lectures that invites artists, researchers, and members of the public to explore listening as an embodied and situated ecological practice. Hosted at Amager Fælled—a now protected natural area shaped by a layered history of military use,
landfilling, and ongoing care and struggle—the programme unfolds within a landscape that embodies the call to explore listening in search of a reorientation toward ecological transformation, resistance, and resilience.
The programme asks: how might we listen differently in a time of climate crisis and ecological transformation? What kind of applied ecological listening does our time require? How can we cultivate a mode of attention attuned not only to what is voiced and sounding, but also to what is silenced, omitted, or unheard? Applied Ecological Listening is an invitation to shift the dominant logics of perception—away from extractive seeing, knowing, and naming—toward a practice of being-with, sensing-with, and listening-with the entangled worlds we inhabit.
Through a series of field-based and experimental lectures, workshops, and collective reflections, the series approaches listening not only as a sensory mode, but as a critical method for attuning to the complex entanglements of ecological life—practicing listening as a way of noticing relations across species, histories, and material traces; of sensing what is present, what is not known, and what is yet to be heard.
Over the course of the series, Bureau for Listening will facilitate the gathering and production of various outputs and forms of documentation, in collaboration with the invited ‘speakers’ and participants—for example, an Applied Ecological Listening Manifesto, listening prompts, and poetic fragments—which will be published at the end of the series.
Tim Rudbøg
Tim Rudbøg, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Centre at the University of Copenhagen. For many years, he has specialized in the study of topics related to occultism, magic, mysticism, esotericism, and spirituality. He is currently focused on the climate crisis and how spiritual and esoteric movements understand nature.
Bureau for Listening
Bureau for Listening is an artist- and research-led platform investigating listening as a critical, empathic and artistic practice. Operating nomadically and transdisciplinarily, the Bureau works across sound, philosophy, and performance.
Its projects explore how listening can unsettle dominant knowledge systems and open spaces for collective inquiry, care, and attentiveness. Through experimental methods and collaborative formats, the Bureau approaches listening not merely as a sensory act, but as a situated and transformative mode of relation.
Bureau for Listening initiates and curates workshops, public programs, research gatherings, and publishing projects, often in collaboration with institutions and informal networks. It is a partner in organizing the Copenhagen manifestation of The
Listening Biennial.
The Listening Biennial
The Listening Biennial is an international artistic and research initiative that highlights listening as a relational capacity—a philosophical, political, creative, and research-driven practice .
The Biennial operates as a decentralized global platform, commissioning audio works, performances, and discursive programs across cities. Embracing radical empathy, ecological attunement, sonic storytelling, and interspecies dialogues, it
asks: how can listening dismantle exclusion, human exceptionalism, and entrenched power structures?
Since its launch in 2021, The Listening Biennial has grown through local “manifestations” with partner venues and institutions. It also runs the Listening Academy, a series of workshops and seminars on listening as creative practice, in cities like Berlin, Delhi, Hong Kong, and Skopje.
Under a network of artists, curators, scholars, and collectives, the Biennial fosters an ecology of attention, encouraging participatory, attuned, and diverse listening cultures worldwide.
Details
OBS: Please arrive in good time, as it takes up to 15 minutes to walk from the metro to the site inside Amager Fælled.
Place: Amager Fælled, meeting point along one of the main paths close to the little northern lake. Please meet at the coordinates: (55.6584120, 12.5807368). At Island Brygge metro st. there will be
someone with a flag saying: LISTEN, who can provide guidance.
To bring: A bottle of water, and clothing according to the weather as we will be outside.
Contact number: 0045 40212007 /
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