( ether o ) Chia-Liang LaiCosmic orbiting

( ether o ) Chia-Liang LaiCosmic orbiting – embodied listening through Taichi, touch and sound

The workshop explores different forms and scales of listening, beginning with inward attunement through a series of guided embodied exercises. Participants are invited into a space of emergence that allows for reconnection, regeneration, and shape-shifting, cultivating new ways of sensing, being, and relating through the practice of listening.
This is followed by partner exercises that extend and ground these newly cultivated capacities. Through the movement practice and cosmology of martial arts, approached with softness and slowness, we explore outward attunement through touch with the intention of understanding the forces of conflict—and how they may be gently neutralized through deep listening. The practice cultivates relaxed strength and sensitivity to movement, presence, and relational awareness.
During the movement exploration, we delve deeper into the poetic imagery of movement, suggesting the interconnectedness between the body and the cosmos. The practice invites an experience of planetary listening, where bodies, the earth, and the cosmos are understood as co-orbiting within a shared field of vibration.

( ether o ) Chia-Liang Lai is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Drawing on the concept of sculptural time, they work across a range of time-based media, including sound, video, performance, and installation. Their performance practice has evolved into an ongoing embodied research that extends into Reiki bodywork and holistic healing rooted in spiritual activism. Their work centers on sound and listening as methods for exploring embodied storytelling and worldbuilding. They were born and grew up in Taipei, currently live and work in Berlin.
Instagram: _ether_o_

Registration required!
For participation, please sign up via etherosonic@gmail.com 

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Workshop: October 1, 2 pm / HAUNT – Projektraum

LOCATION
frontviews at HAUNT
Kluckstraße 23 A Yard
D – 10785 Berlin

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ORGANISER
Errant Sound e.V.
Rungestr. 20
10179 Berlin
www.errantsound.net

SOCIAL MEDIA
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@errant.sound

Berlin Museum of Medical History @bmmcharite
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Floating Berlin @floatinguniversity
Deep See @ Café Babette Public Space @deep_see_berlin

WEB
HAUNT Berlin

PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Bus Linie M48 or M85 from Potsdamer Platz/Bus Stop
Lützowstr./Potsdamer Str. and a 4 minute walk // U-Bahn
Kurfürstenstraße Line U1 and U3 and a 6-minute walk // M29 Bus Stop Gedenkstätte Dt. Widerstand and a 2-minute walk.

The Global Dystopia Sound Art Biennial and HAUNT are generously supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The HAUNT part was also made possible with the initiative of the whole frontviews collective.

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Global Dystopia – under this title, the fourth Dystopia Sound Art Biennial, taking place from 26 September to 17 October 2026, brings together more than 40 international artists with sound installations, performances, talks, and workshops at five venues across Berlin, in public space, and on Instagram. The biennial opens on 26 September at HAUNT/frontviews.

This year’s edition gathers sound art perspectives from different regions of the world: Global Dystopia invites audiences to experience dystopias as spaces of encounter between memory and the future, between loss and resistance, and between ecological crises, political conflicts, and speculative visions of
the future.

Field recording archives enter into dialogue with research into oral traditions; sounding fungi encounter contemporary sound system practices; the fatigue of a city drifting along the Spree meets Berlin’s hidden Underground.

Global Dystopia understands listening as a political, ecological, and social practice. The works on display attend to the entanglements of global power relations – past, present, and future – and open up perspectives on more-than-human relationships, the environment as an acoustic space of experience, and the material conditions of listening.

What forms of knowledge become accessible through sound? How can suppressed histories, marginalized perspectives, or ecological processes be made audible? What role can listening play in confronting climate change, extractivism, colonial continuities, or collective trauma?

Programme and Information
www.dystopia.berlin