A (mis)reader’s Guide to Listening, is a mediation conceived especially for the exhibition Infite Ear, based on spontaneous encounters with the visitors. Developed by Lendl Barcelos, Valentina Desideri, and Myriam Lefkowitz, in collaboration with Catalina Insignares, the work is a fluid combination of artistic, therapeutic, musical, conceptual, esoteric, and poetic practices.

It was conceived as the result of workshops with mediators who have various relationships to the body, sound, and deafness. The artists transmit to the performers a set of practices and tools for (mis)reading and listening that they have gathered. They work with the performers, in dialogue with their individual practice, in order for them to develop their own interpretations, their own ways of (mis)reading and guiding visitors through the exhibition in individual or group sessions.

Placed at the intersection of different fields of knowledge, A (mis)reader’s Guide to Listening reveals how the visitor’s bodies and concerns participates in the interpretation of a work, and proposes other ways of sensing that may expand the work’s interpre- tation within and beyond the exhibition space.