The CLUB is a set of practices, actions, activations, devices, tools, and other structures for connecting us in a network, for getting to know each other physically and remotely, for transmitting personal ideas, stories, and desires, for learning with each other, for feeling with each other. 

It is a tentacular tool for generating community experiences and encounters, which then seeks ways and formats to share and disseminate these actions, these encounters, these voices, and this knowledge. 

After several years of environmental listening and exploring the soundscape of the more-than-human, I have come to feel once again that it is extremely necessary to listen to each other. My trips to artist residencies in 2025 to Palestine and Argentina, both at critical moments in their history and with many voices silenced, many stories untold in the first person, made me pick up my recorder and go out to listen in order to amplify these voices. 

The Club is a platform and an active channel that is implemented with the aim of listening firsthand to people and their stories so that they can be shared openly and so that voices and experiences can be heard in which people and the community are the protagonists. I have been greatly surprised by the affinity this format has achieved, the kind and courageous willingness of people to tell and share their realities and experiences, and the number of listeners they reach.

These documents open doors to other voices, to the distances and complexities of our times. I am very interested in continuing to develop this format and trying to create an open and accessible archive with all this material.

Although the Club has been in the making for several years with projects such as “Relational Listening” that I did in 2022 in Linz, it wasn't until last year (2025) with my joining such a powerful platform as Radio alHara, the Palestinian resistance radio station, that the Club took shape and gained a channel for mass expression and dissemination.

The Club organize activations, presentations, listening sessions, interviews, exhibitions, and diverse formats in which to present not only this valuable material, but also a way to come together, learn together, and listen in a shared way.

When the idea for the Club was just getting started, I received an invitation to spend three months in Bethlehem, Palestine, as a resident artist at The Wonder Cabinet and Radio alHara.

This would open up the idea of a club to a global platform and audience. As they said, to have a fresh ear, outside of all the media manipulation, but with a microphone inside the conflict zone itself. The great help was the number of people who came to tell me their stories about the genocide of the Palestinian people, the occupation, and their lives in the midst of war.

It is a responsibility that I am still trying to honor today, and to use in the most honest and open way possible, understanding my role as a medium that only wants to amplify these voices and the people behind them want to be amplified and shared.

No agendas, no scripts, just attentive listening, empathy, and responsibility to share and expand their voices to as many people as possible.

After visiting Palestine, I was invited to an artist residency in Argentina in the cities of San José and Rosario. My stay in October 2025 coincided with a period of great turmoil due to the political situation in the country. It was also just before the legislative elections, in which there was a lot at stake for the coming years.

The artistic community in these cities is very critical and politically active, and the debates are intense and interesting. It was very exciting to be there at that moment and to be able to share with local artists and their ideas. From having only a vague idea of Argentine politics, I was introduced to its recent history, Peronism, and social struggles, not only by talking to artists but also to students at universities and young people at academies.

Escuela La Mantovani - Santa Fe

This school was a wonderful surprise, thanks to the intensity and generosity of its students. The students at this school are young teenagers, and before I went to give a talk about my work, I was told that they were difficult kids because of their age. But I didn't encounter any difficulties, only interest, collaboration, and active and valuable participation.

After giving them a talk about my work and introducing them to The Listening Club, I suggested the possibility of recording an episode of The Club for Radio with them. 

They agreed, very excited! As there were more than 50 students, I suggested that they form groups with whomever they wanted. They formed four groups.

The idea was that they themselves would talk to me in each group about a topic that interested them, they would decide the content, knowing that it was a recording for the radio and that they wanted to talk about themselves, that it would be a reflection of the Argentine youth of Santa Fe. In order not to influence them, I left them the recorders and did not listen to the recordings until it was time to edit the program. 

The result was four incredibly rich and powerful recordings in which they valued the country's public education system, thought about their future, and talked about their city and its traditions. The music for the episode was also selected by each group.

A couple of weeks passed between the recording and the broadcast of the program, during which time they waited eagerly to hear it live. To my great joy, many of them, as well as their teachers, contacted me to say how much they had loved the program and how proud they were.

*This project was carried out with the support of Curadora Residencia in San José del Rincón, and the professors of la Mantovani School.

Once in the city of Rosario, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk and establish a meeting point for the Listening Club in the courtyard, thanks to the invitation of professors and the collaboration of the Crudo Arte Contemporaneo gallery. On this occasion, the participants were first-year students of a wide range of ages, from approximately 20 to 55, with very different personal histories, so the conversation was very focused on the defense of public education and future job opportunities, mental health, family, etc.

La Jornada de la Escucha - Barcelona

Now back in Barcelona, just in time to organize an event I had been planning since 2024 for the Fabra i Coats center. The name is La Jornada de la Escucha (The Day of Listening), an event that explores listening practices as potential generators of social transformation, unity, and collective encounter.

The first edition sought to pay tribute to the teachings of pioneering artists who explored sound and listening as a tool for connecting with each other and the world around us, including Pauline Oliveros, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Maryanne Amacher.

An open and participatory day with sound exploration workshops, a listening room, special presentations, and concerts in a multichannel system.

*In addition to artistic direction, I was very interested in the image and promotion of the festival, so I created all the graphics for the event.

This project was carried out with the support of the Fabra i Coats technical team led by Miguel Angel, Carles Sala, and Carlota, and with the collaboration of resident artists Ro Rapoport, Martina Petersen and the Corso Collective, and Elisa Carrasco.

Work is underway on the second edition for fall 2026 with the theme: Sounds of Resistance.

With all the problems my country is facing after more than 27 years of dictatorial rule, and with all the uncertainty we all feel about the future of our country, I was interested in meeting with other Venezuelan artists to talk about what we imagine for the future of Venezuela through art and culture, without getting too involved in politics (although this is political).

It's a simple thing, but I think it's necessary for us to get together, get to know each other, and talk, so that those of us who work in culture can be heard and share what we would like to see happen in Venezuela.

This was something I was thinking about in December as I was organizing a program for Radio Alhara with this content. Just before contacting the Venezuelan artists, on January 3, 2026, what happened happened, with the intervention of the US in Venezuela, and as a result, many voices, in a very strange way, began to shout about Venezuela even more than the Venezuelans themselves. For this reason, I felt that this program should be done, with the same objective of not commenting on what many already seem to “know,” but rather to come together and imagine together.

In this first installment of talks with Venezuelan artists (both inside and outside the country), I met with the artists Orne Cabrita and Teresa Mulet.

We met and spoke openly without any agenda, but with the desire to share and build alliances between us.

The Listening Club · Episode 11 was air Live! on Radio alHara on Thrusday 22, January 2026.