Live from the Threshold: an Art-Science Conversation invites audiences into a unique public gathering at the intersections of art, science, and society. Conceived as a live podcast recording, the event foregrounds embodied encounters as a mode of inquiry, where listening, sensing, and care open up new ways of relating to the world.
Curated and moderated by Ines Montalvao (Program Director, Artists with Evidence), this event marks the beginning of a collaboration between Artists with Evidence (AwE) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington DC.
Positioned at the threshold — between disciplines, forms of knowledge, and modes of being — the conversation underscores the urgency of transgressing the known. In a time of ecological upheaval and technological acceleration, conventional frameworks often fail us. Artists and scientists are increasingly called to think and act together, cultivating practices rooted in attention, slowness, and relationality.
The dialogue will explore the porous boundaries between human and non-human worlds; underground ecosystems and unseen infrastructures of life; interspecies listening and sonic practices of care; the politics of access, limits, and ecological boundaries; and the body as an epistemological site—sensing, adapting, and communicating across thresholds.
The evening brings together three outstanding voices in art-science:
Cara Hagan · brings embodied knowledge working through movement, performance, and interdisciplinary storytelling, centering the body as a site of ecological and cultural memory.
Linda O’Keeffe · works at the intersection of sound, environment, and feminist technoscience to open new channels of listening across species and amplify the politics of care and access.
Nikki Lindt · painter whose interdisciplinary practice draws deeply from the subterranean world, to explore and reflect on the rapidly shifting ecosystems of the earth.
Why Attend
Through this live art-science podcast, the audience will not only listen but also participate in a public exchange that foregrounds care, interdependence, and the speculative potential of collaboration. As we navigate crises demanding more-than-human thinking, Live from the Threshold gestures toward new imaginaries — where sensing becomes a form of resistance, and transdisciplinary practice offers tools for inhabiting uncertainty ethically and with imagination.
This event will take place in person only, with a recording to be released later as a podcast, in a collaboration between Artists with Evidence and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington DC.
