Geographies of Listening

A three-day festival celebrating the opening of the permanent Public Community Library at Out of Sight.

The festival approaches lostening from several distinct artistic positions. Eszter Némethi & Julia E. Dyck, Isabel Burr Raty, Eva van Tongeren, Kristina Camilleri-Grygolec and Zone of Dawn (Study Circle Antwerp), are generously opening up their ongoing research and inviting you to join the festival and the opening of the Public Community Library.

Across three days, listening shifts from voice and language to the body and landscape, and from an intimate act between individuals to a collective and political practice.

We would be delighted to have you join us to mark this important occasion. Please save the dates in your calendars. We look forward to welcoming you to Antwerp.

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The Public Community Library grows out of Out of Sight’s long-term commitment to the presentation of artistic research projects. Many artistic processes develop through conversation, experimentation, reading, listening, and exchange, yet these forms of knowledge often remain invisible once a work is presented publicly. The Public Community Library creates a context in which these processes can remain accessible and continue to generate new encounters.

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Friday, 16.10.2026

19:00 — Opening: Public Community Library

20:00 & 21:00 — Cinema Session: THE FILM OF HER by Bill Morrison (1996, 16 mm, b&w, 12’)
Based on the story of a Library of Congress clerk who saved a vault full of paper reels documenting the earliest days of cinema from incineration.

19:00–22:00 — Bread & Poetry: Cultura Bakehouse by Kristina Camilleri-Grygolec
For this occasion, Kristina Camilleri-Grygolec explores different forms of dehydrated dough: crackers, dried breads, and other long-lasting preparations, as a way of tracing the breads we carry with us across geographies, memories, and cultures, and as forms of nourishment that can sustain us on a journey. You are warmly invited to gather around the table to taste and share the breads.

19:00–22:00 (ongoing artistic research presentations) — THE SPINE by Isabel Burr Raty and the first public presentation of Zone of Dawn.

Saturday, 17.10.2026 

10:00–16:00 — Collective Research & Workshop: The Listening Field Autumn School (Day 1), facilitated by Eszter Némethi and Julia E. Dyck
Listening Field returns as a two-day school dedicated to the political agency of the listener.
Thank you all who registered for the participation. The call is now closed.

17:00–18:30 — Interactive guided visit: THE SPINE. From the inlands, to a peninsula, and from an island to a jungle with Isabel Burr Raty
For this interactive guided visit, Isabel shares traces and artefacts linked to the construction and activation of THE SPINE path and its sensory vessels, which invite us to become regenerative fibers interwoven in the tapestry of the earth body. No need to inscribe, just pop-up at starting time!

10:00–19:00 (ongoing artistic research presentations) — THE SPINE by Isabel Burr Raty and the first public presentation of Zone of Dawn.

Sunday, 18.10.2026 

10:00–16:00 — Collective Research & Workshop: The Listening Field Autumn School (Day 2), facilitated by Eszter Némethi and Julia E. Dyck

16:00–19:00 — Artist Talk: A SPINE Conversation, with collaborators Joachim Ben Yakoub and Isabel Burr Raty
The public is invited to join Joachim’s and Isabel’s ongoing reflection process on crossing the threshold between skin and soil.

19:00–20:00 — Collective Reading: Visite # Love & Lightning programmed by Eva van Tongeren > Rant of the Menopausal Cyborg by Faith Wilding
From Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos, compiled by Girls Like Us and author Sarah Van Binsbergen. Participation is free. Sign up via the online form.

20:00–21:30 — Cinema Session: Visite # Love & Lightning programmed by Eva van Tongeren > Peaches Goes Bananas by Marie Losier
The film takes an intimate look at artist and musician Peaches.

10:00–22:00 (ongoing artistic research presentations) — THE SPINE by Isabel Burr Raty and the first public presentation of Zone of Dawn.

Practical information

When: 16.10—18.10.2026

Where: Out of Sight, Somersstraat 31, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium

Entry and participation in the festival’s programme is FREE for everyone.

To make the festival enjoyable, we provide:

• Free vegetarian lunch, tea, and coffee, for the participants of The Listening Field Autumn School on Saturday and Sunday
• Free veggy soup for the participants of the collective reading, during Visite # Love & Lightning on Sunday evening.
• There is a quiet prayer room with a prayer mat, available for prayer during the festival. It is a calm space where you can find rest and peace. It is also suitable for breastfeeding if you or your baby prefer a calm space.
• The programme is in English. However, we hope that together we can find a way to offer personal (whispered 🙂 translation when needed.
• The ground floor of the venue and the toilet are step-free and wheelchair-accessible.
• There is a baby-changing table in the toilet.

If you have any additional questions, please send an email to dusica.drazic@out-of-sight.be.

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The Public Community Library is situated between artistic research and public presentation. It is being co-developed in collaboration with Study Circle Antwerp within the On Mobilisation. Towards Multivocal Collaborative Futures project, co-funded by the European Union (Creative Europe programme).