Escucha Paliativa
“If there is one thing our contemporary culture does not excel at, it is reflecting on finitude”
– Jonathan Sterne
From an interview by Bastien Gallet and Matthieu Saladin. Published in Tacet no. 4, “Sounds of Utopia”.
Horizontal Listening
Research and situated knowledge
Hemen
Diary, texts and audiovisual essay
AMETS
Soundscapes in hospital settings
~BODIES 🎧
Collaborative workshop on music and distress
~BODIES 🎧
Listening archive and critical analysis of cassettes
~BODIES 🎧
Morse-code fanzine featuring young voices
Open Dialogues
Publication of the voice and interview archive
Open Dialogues
Archive of interviews and voices in dialogue
Bihotzez
Sound installation with heartbeats
Bihotzez
Risograph publication of heartbeats
Petit Bardo
An invitation to listen to impermanence
Petit Bardo - Digital Archive
Archive and research tool
Petit Bardo - The Anarchives
Physical archive of books and records
Horizontal Listening
Research and situated knowledge
Hemen
Diary, texts and audiovisual essay
AMETS
Soundscapes in hospital settings
~BODIES 🎧
Collaborative workshop on music and distress
~BODIES 🎧
Listening archive and critical analysis of cassettes
~BODIES 🎧
Morse-code fanzine featuring young voices
Open Dialogues
Publication of the voice and interview archive
Open Dialogues
Archive of interviews and voices in dialogue
Bihotzez
Sound installation with heartbeats
Bihotzez
Risograph publication of heartbeats
Petit Bardo
An invitation to listen to impermanence
Petit Bardo - Digital Archive
Archive and research tool
Petit Bardo - The Anarchives
Physical archive of books and records
Escucha Paliativa is an interdisciplinary artistic research programme that seeks to auscultate the limits of listening in situations of existential vulnerability.
The research examines the palliative capacity of listening as a form of accompaniment in situations of existential uncertainty. It places listening at the centre, developing practices of consolation and knowledge-making through cultural mediation.
The programme takes shape through a laboratory of workshops and collective processes, reading and listening groups, sound installations, series of interviews and open dialogues, audiovisual essays, publications and living archives.
“Health was nothing but the silence of the organs”
Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological
Project carried out in collaboration with La Panera (Lleida) and with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture within the “Public Grants for the Creation, Research and Production of Artistic Projects in Residence” (2025).
Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan — Funded by the European Union — Next Generation EU. Government of Spain, Ministry of Culture.