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With Esma’, Beirut Art Center invites artists and composers to share the exhibition space. Whether silent or
audible, their works develop contemporary forms of listening. This specific sensory condition engages with
the awareness of distance and proximity, of interiority and exteriority. Since the ear has no eyelid, our acoustic
sensitivity exposes us to sound before anything else. Listening is constructed on this organic porosity: it is an act
involving various degrees of consciousness and intentionality. It filters, samples, reorganize the sonic material that
we receive. Listening may be …