Winter Walking
Sound installation by Dr. Rachel Epp Buller

Sound Studies Gallery, 3-47 Arts Building
1st – 29th May, 2023

Presented as part of the 2023 SpokenWeb symposium. Read more about the symposium here.

Winter Walking
Sound installation by Dr. Rachel Epp Buller

Sound Studies Gallery, 3-47 Arts Building
1st – 29th May, 2023

What might it mean to listen beyond our ears, and why would we want to? Drawing on the histories of Deep Listening, feminist and Indigenous listening, and the Slow movement, Dr. Buller proposes ways that listening through artistic practices can be carried out with our whole bodies as a means to forge relational connections, sorely needed in a time of converging crises. Expansive understandings of listening with our hands and feet, our gestures and movements, as modeled by a range of contemporary artists and explored in my own artistic and research-creation inquiries, position us to better attune to our human and more-than-human others.

Dr. Rachel Epp Buller (she/her) is Professor of Visual Arts and Design, Director of the Regier Art Gallery, and Chair of the Faculty, at Bethel College (KS/US). She is a feminist art historian, a visual artist, and a mother of three, intersecting roles addressed in some of her scholarship, including her books Reconciling Art and Mothering (2012) and Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (2019), edited with Charles Reeve. She is a certified practitioner in Deep Listening, and her current research-creation project is an inquiry into listening as artistic practice.