The Skin Listens Too

In recent years, artist Netta Weiser has been listening to moving bodies through microphones, speakers, and radio broadcasts as part of her long-term project *Radio-Choreography*. After years of listening to dance through sound technologies, this new work explores how the act of listening itself can be choreographed and performed.

Here, choreography emerges through the act of listening rather than seeing. The voice becomes a form of touch, and attunement becomes a way of moving together.

At the heart of the work are choreographic interpretations of “Listening Scores” by the American feminist composer Pauline Oliveros, which build on her exploration of collective listening as an embodied, political, and activist practice.  The title of the work, *The Skin Listens Too*, is a quote from Oliveros.

Concept and Choreography: Netta Weiser

Performers: Akemi Nagao, Johanna Ackva

Dramaturgical consultation: Tal Yahas

Special thanks to: Nora Amin,Sabrina Huth, Avigail Kochavy, Raz Mantell, Adi Weinberg, Tamar Witkow, Susanna Ylikoski

With support from the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion—Working and Research Grant for the Performing Arts and Dance, as well as Artport Tel Aviv.

The performance takes place as part of “fuga,” a sound exhibition at the Humboldt Forum, commissioned by the Media Department of the Ethnological Museum, State Museums of Berlin.

Funded by Artis as part of the Exhibition Grant Initiative.

- Location: Listening Room, 2nd floor, Ethnological Collections

- Free admission. A ticket is required for the Ethnological Collections exhibitions.

- Price: 9 EUR (regular)