Open Field Listening Station - Femke Dekker

Femke Dekker’s 'Open Field Listening Session' translates the ephemeral experience of sound and listening into a tactile, printed form. The publication functions as both a score and a toolkit, guiding readers through exercises and reflections on deep listening and its potential to transform our relationship with our environment and with one another. It weaves together poetic instructions, graphic scores, and theoretical fragments, fostering an active mode of reading that is at once meditative and critically engaged. The book stands as an artwork in its own right, proposing publishing as a medium for participatory, embodied, and sensory experience. Femke Dekker is a Dutch artist and researcher whose work explores the politics of listening, voice, and the space between language and sound. She investigates these themes through performance, installation, and publishin