Workshop
What if our bodies preserve connections to the living world that our minds have forgotten? And what if scents open up pathways to remember and reimagine collective care?
Soma of the Tree invites us to explore tree resins sensorially as embodied archives in which traces of vulnerability, regeneration and memory continue to resonate. Inspired by the Japanese tradition of Mon-kō [listening to scent], we practice smelling as a form of deep listening.
Exploring Scent as a way of knowing that moves through the body and activates memories even before language, whilst the burning of resins becomes a liminal experience between body and environment.
The workshop combines the practice of olfactory perception with the composition and creation of a personal scent object. Opening with a sensory listening session featuring the delicate smoke of various tree resins, accompanied by sound artist Amelie Neumann.
Registration until 5 October 2026 at patricia@thesoundescape.com
Patricia Hegglin is a Swiss-born interdisciplinary researcher and sound artist based in Berlin. Her work explores the intersections of listening, ecology, and nervous system resilience. Through multisensory ritual formats, resonant instruments, and gongs, she creates spaces for deep attunement grounded in somatic practice and trauma-sensitive care. With a background in design and education, her approach bridges research and artistic practice, emphasizing knowledge sharing as a collective endeavor. Her current work with tree resins reflects on scent and smoke as carriers of cultural memory and collective presence. Influenced by her lived experience with ME/CFS, she reframes listening as a practice of attention, regeneration, and relationality.
Web: www.patriciahegglin.com
Instagram: @the__soundescape
Workshop: October 8, 2 pm / HAUNT – Projektraum
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Photo: Soma of the Tree. Copal photo by Alex Seichter. Smoke graphics and digital composition by Patricia Hegglin ©