oa listening to listening/listening letter

During her PhD research bodies of knowledge – the public space as a forum for the exchange of repressed or underexposed knowledge, Sarah Vanhee tries to bring about an exchange of underexposed knowledge by non-dominant voices. During this process, Vanhee and her collaborator Flore Herman were repeatedly confronted with the importance of deep listening, and the lack of it. The following texts are an attempt to understand what deep listening is, as a mental, physical and political practice, and from a feminist perspective.