About this Event
Join us for a conversation around relational listening practices, stemming from the new book Listening Glossary, edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch and published by Spiral House, an imprint of Silver Press.
This glossary is a practical guide to listening as a social, political and imaginative practice. It gathers over two hundred terms from art, ecology, activism, psychology, education and philosophy, spanning nine decades of thinking about listening as a way of relating to others, environments and structures of power.
Focusing on two entries relating to psychoanalysis, we invite book contributors Anouchka Grose and Angie Voela to discuss their perspectives on listening, drawing on their research and experience within the field. Anouchka, psychoanalyst and writer, considers the uneasy work of listening, while Angie proposes ‘active(ist) listening’ as a challenge to psychoanalysis to listen carefully to what takes place beyond the clinic.
Together with Hannah, they will explore evolving ideas around relational listening, asking what listening might make possible within and beyond psychoanalytic practice.
About the book:
Listening Glossary explores the many meanings and practices of listening. In an era shaped by climate crisis, war and deepening social inequalities, listening is increasingly called upon to bear witness – to melting glaciers, disappearing species, militarised borders, extractive infrastructures and other forms of violence and loss.
This glossary is a practical guide to listening as a social, political and imaginative practice. It gathers over two hundred terms from art, ecology, activism, psychology, education and philosophy across nine decades of thinking about listening as a way of relating to others, environments and structures of power. Entries invite listening through another’s ears or from specific perspectives, encountering forms of listening that range from the non-cochlear to the interspecies. Together, these entries reveal listening as a critical method for understanding and transforming the worlds we inhabit.
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Speakers:
Hannah Kemp-Welch is an artist and researcher based in London. Working across sound and transmission arts, her practice takes the form of audio works, analogue films and community workshops that foreground collective listening as both a creative and critical method. Hannah teaches sound arts, collaborative practice and curation at University of the Arts London.
Anouchka Grose is a psychoanalyst, writer and climate campaigner based in London. She is the author of nine books, including The Revolution Will Be Internalised: On the Unlikely Politics of Inner-Prepping (2026) and Uneasy Listening: Notes on Hearing and Being Heard (2022). She has contributed to The Guardian, Granta, Harpers Bazaar, Al Jazeera and Radio 4. Her next book, Arthur Russell is My Religion, is due out in March 2027.
Angie Voela is a Reader in Social Sciences, University of East London (UK). She is the co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society since 2018. She is the author of After Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Myth in Contemporary Culture (2017). Her more recent publications include the co-edited volumes After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial transformations after COVID-19 (2021) and Movement, Velocity and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective (2022) and a co-edited special issue on Psychoanalysis and Academic Freedom (Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 2025). She is training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (London, UK).
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