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Exhibition

Listening as Public Encounter

Listening as Public Encounter

In the fall semester 2025, as part of the seminar Production in the Master’s Programme in Art and Public Space, students developed site-specific sound works for public presentation at Spikersuppa.

The seminar was structured as an open call, inviting students to conceive, produce, and present sound works grounded in a specific site and responding to its historical, environmental, social, political, and acoustic conditions. The works take the form of pre-recorded sound compositions played through speakers, foregrounding listening as an embodied and collective experience in public space.

Opening on Thursday 15 January at 17:00, the exhibition approaches sound not only as artistic material, but as a mode of public encounter. Through the translation of conceptual research into technically realised works, the students explore how sound can activate public space, challenge habitual modes of listening, and generate new relations between place, audience, and everyday life.

The works invite passersby to pause, tune in, and experience how sound can subtly transform public space, opening it to reflection and imagination. Together, they explore sound as a relational medium that reshapes how we move through, inhabit, and share our surroundings.

The exhibition can be listened to from 15 January to 3 March 2026 at Spikersuppa Lyd Galleri, located at the Spikersuppa ice skating range.

Works presented

Kl 17.00 – SPIKER DRAGON 16.000 (2026) by Nicolai Risbjerg
Kl 17.05 – Hvem ler høyest? (2026) by Reidun Solvik
Kl 17.10 – Ice skating is a way to cope (2026), by Maja Bakken, Olle&Malla
Kl 17.15 – Marichiweu (2026) by Flexi Aukan
Kl 17.25 – HISTORISK SUS (2026) by Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen


You can learn more about the artists and their works at https://spikersuppalydgalleri.no/
and follow us on khio_artandpublicspace

For more information about Spikersuppa Lyd Galleri: https://spikersuppalydgalleri.no/
Contact: Andreas Hald Oxenvad email: androxen@gmail.com
Production seminar at the Master’s Programme in Art and Public Space was lead by Merete Røstad email: mererost@khio.no