a long-term artistic research practice in non-extractive listening

Hljóðeyja is a long-term practice rooted in non-extractive listening. The project follows listening as a practice shaped by bodies, environments, and ethical thresholds, asking how we listen and at what cost. It grows from fieldwork across landscapes, sound, bodies, and limitation, informed by disability, sensory variation, and attunement.

This work asks: What does it mean to listen without taking? and How does the body shape how, where, and when we listen?

Hljóðeyja does not assume that fieldwork is neutral or universal, it situates:

• embodied listening with rest, refusal, and pacing as method;
• listening scores that guide when recording may happen, and when silence is the appropriate outcome;
• non-extraction extended not only to environments and non-human presences, but also to the artist’s own body and limits.

Hljóðeyja has been selected for:

• VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, research exposition accepted (forthcoming)
• SICK Magazine, essay accepted (forthcoming)
• two art residencies (2025 and 2026) in Hrísey, Iceland, focusing on situated, score-based listening
• a collaborative exhibition (Iceland, February 2026)

More of this practice is emerging through scores, essays, and reflections in progress.