As part of my work as writer-in-residence with the FIELD at NCAD, I’ll be hosting a listening-walking-writing workshop with participants of Becoming Terrestrial, an international conference exploring reworlding in creative and cultural institutions, taking place on the 3rd and 4th November at NCAD.

Since the Spring, I’ve spent time with artists and NCAD lecturers Gareth Kennedy and Seoidín O’Sullivan as they’ve facilitated Studio+ and Art and Ecology Certificate students in the Field. I’ve made a lot of field-notes (green book above). And for this workshop (A Quantum Listening Field Walk) I’ve edited excerpts from my ‘transcriptions of reality’.

I’ve also been bringing second year Art students from IADT to the Field, through my module Curious Bodies. This module invites students to practice writing by listening for their own voice through encounters with art. A key technique is free-writing (see Peter Elbow), and I’ve added the practice deep listening, in particular quantum listening, developed by musician Pauline Oliveros.

I’m currently a funded investigator with CONNECT, the centre for future networks. I’ve been investigating, through a highly diffractive lens, how quantum technologies and novel ecologies might overlap – and I think Oliveros’ practice of quantum listening offers a slipway into these rippling waters. A key concept and method I’ve been developing is jxst reading – which seeks to focus attention on the importance of reading as an embodied and sensory practice that precedes the written word and as crucial for social, economic and epistemic justice.

A Quantum Listening Field Walk combines performance, poetry, active listening and reading, with walking and writing. This workshop shares some of the writing I’ve been working on during the residency and provides participants with a score to guide them in practicing quantum listening and freewriting in the context of the novel urban ecology that is NCAD FIELD.