In late 2018, Triple Canopy began a yearlong Public Engagement residency at the Hammer Museum, which ended up continuing for a while longer (and, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the culminating event has yet to occur). For the residency, we worked with the L.A.-based artist Nikita Gale on Omniaudience, a series of listening sessions, conversations, performances, and publications that ask: What are the settings in which speech and sound can be heard and have a meaningful impact? How has our ability to listen changed with the development of new technologies for synthesizing, transmitting, capturing, and quantifying expressions? How can we listen in ways that make us more receptive to one another and ensure that a plurality of voices can be heard?

Navigate to Triple Canopy to learn more about Omniaudience and read (and listen to) the works that have emerged from the residency. Here’s the official description:

Omniaudience refers to the faculty of hearing and comprehending everything, but might also name a congregation of listeners who possess, or strive to attain, this faculty. Omniaudience is a series of listening sessions, conversations, performances, and publications that emerges from the magazine’s 2018–19 Public Engagement residency at the Hammer Museum and is organized with the Los Angeles–based artist Nikita Gale. The series considers the role of listening and the settings in which speech and sound can be heard and have a meaningful effect. How has our ability to listen changed with the development of new technologies for synthesizing, transmitting, capturing, and quantifying expressions? Instead of valorizing the assertion of individuality through speech (which now is so likely to be mediated, mined, and commodified), Omniaudience asks how we can we listen in ways that make us more open to one another and ensure that a plurality of voices can be heard, while considering when and why we might refuse to make ourselves available or receptive to others.