with Dania Shihab

The SEC (Sesiones de Escucha Colectiva) are a space to experience deep listening from a physical dimension. More than just hearing, it is about collectively inhabiting the practice of listening as a tool for connection, reflection, and sensory exploration.

Guided by guest artists, each session offers sound journeys that invite attentive, immersive, and expanded perception of sound.

CLS arises from the desire to pause and share a moment of listening, expanding our perception of sound beyond the audible and generating a collective sound experience from the body.

bio

Dania Shihab is a sound artist and musician. Born in Baghdad, raised in Tasmania and currently based in Barcelona, she divides her time between Spain and the remote corners of Australia, where she works as an emergency doctor. Her practice navigates the layered terrain of migration, interstitial identity, and the shifting boundaries of statehood through the lens as a forced migrant. She has performed in venues such as Cafe Oto and La Casa Encendida and at festivals such as Sónar, Sonic Acts and Mira. She was a selected artist for the SHAPE+ platform for audiovisual arts in 2024, she’s also completed a residency at Providenza (France) and will begin a new residency at EMS (Sweden) in October 2025. She has been selected as an artist for the principal residency program at La Becque (Switzerland) 2026. She is the founder and director of the experimental platform Paralaxe Editions, and her music has appeared on such labels as Geographic North, Ecstatic, Somewhere Press, Superpang, OOH-sounds and Longform Editions.

Activity coordinated by Valentina Alvarado Matos and Carlos Vásquez Méndez.

SEC (Sesiones de Escucha Colectiva) is part of REBOST, a program line managed autonomously and collectively by the members of La Escocesa, who decide on the activities they want to organize in relation to the interests and needs of the group.

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