Listening Currents: Singing, Fishing, to Net Across the Greater Caribbean

Listening Currents: Singing, Fishing, To Net Across the Great Caribbean is the first listening party hosted by Bochinche, an initiative of the Climate Forum that centres Latin American and Greater Caribbean architectures, knowledges and political imaginations as they emerge through epistemic plurality, joy and defiance. It is developed in collaboration with Afterall Research Centre, hosted by Central Saint Martins (UAL) and funded by the rearc Institute.

Gathering together, we journey across the Greater Caribbean and the Americas through sonic traditions, storytelling, and netting. Listening currents invites audiences into coastal imaginings, moving between folk songs, fishing and netting techniques, and video archives.

Participants

• Jess Rowley, librarian and multi-media artist exploring decolonial approaches to editing and archiving sonic histories

• Raisa Desypri, PhD candidate at Central Saint Martins, with research practice spanning curating, visual and performing arts and community engagement

• Catalina Mejia Moreno, Reader in Reparative Architectures and Climate Forum and Climate Lead, Spatial Practices at Central Saint Martins

• Adeena May, Scholar, editor and curator working across contemporary art, exhibition histories and managing editor of Afterall

• Carlos Parras Rios, Colombian Photographer

Being Human Festival

This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 5-14 November 2026. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org