Framed around practices of listening, speculation, and experimentation, the event opens with a talk by Emiddio Vasquez (Lower Levant Company) and Diana Policarpo. The artists will discuss their respective artworks Bad Luck to Every Magistrate and Bad Luck to Every Gamekeeper and Bugio Eco-Station (co-developed by Diana Policarpo and Bernardo Gaeiras), reflecting on echolocation and non-human sound. Together, they discuss how listening can reveal the impact of militarisation and colonial infrastructure on surrounding ecosystems.

The night continues with Every Day Things Disappear by Urok Shirhan, a live performance unfolding as a sonic fiction from the occupied land of ‘ABC’, where words, colours, feelings – and eventually futures – are systematically erased. Told through a fragmented first-person narrator, the work slips between satire and sorrow, tracing the quiet violence of censorship. Blending spoken word with archival murmurs and encrypted song fragments, it conjures a world where remembering becomes a subversive act. Every Day Things Disappear is both lament and code, auto-myth and resistance ritual. It asks how we listen when speech dissolves and what songs take shape in silence.

This programme is part of the Biennial exhibition at W139, where Lower Levant Company’s and Diana Policarpo’s works are on display.