Garden of the Earthly Delights is a guided active listening walk designed to engage participants in a multisensory exploration of their surroundings. It seeks to emphasise bodily awareness as a means of environmental communication, shifting away from solely scientific knowledge towards an intuitive, sensorial experience. 

By embracing our place within the larger ecosystem, this project highlights how human perception – though shaped by our physical limitations – carries an inherent knowledge of the non-human world. Recognising patterns in plants, animals and natural formations is not learnt but deeply embedded in our sensory consciousness.

Through this experience, participants will move beyond passive observation, engaging in practices that encourage an intimate and reciprocal relationship with the surroundings. The project also underscores the pleasure, necessity and urgency of such engagement.

By integrating site-specific sonic and visual landmarks, the soundwalk aims to guide participants towards deeper ecological awareness and encourage an acknowledgment of non-human ways of thinking and existing.

Martyna Poznańska is an interdisciplinary artist who works with different media across genres. This includes the practice of active listening and field recording in tangent to working with various visual tools such as video, installation, her own body and drawing, as well as listening workshops and soundwalks. Responding to issues related to climate crises, she has been exploring the symbiotic relations between human and non-human beings, the endless entanglements between us and how to acknowledge their intrinsic character. She has performed and exhibited internationally.