"My practice unfolds through the radical act of listening—positioning attention and presence as tools of resistance within a changing world."

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Biography

Ina Otzko (b. 1972, Norway) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice operates at the intersection of embodied perception, temporality, and ecological systems. Utilizing a diverse material language—including photography, film, performance, sound, and text-based installations—she employs long-term and site-responsive strategies to engage landscapes shaped by geological processes, climate change, and human histories.

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Her work investigates liminality, memory, and the relationality between human and more-than-human worlds, interrogating urgent environmental and geopolitical issues with poetic insight. Through thoughtful advocacy, Otzko creates immersive, durational experiences that shift perception and foreground ethical engagement. Projects such as Together Elsewhere and IAMNOWHERE activate critical awareness, inviting new modes of thinking within the complex, interconnected layers of our global environment.

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She holds Master’s degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London (MA Image & Communication, 2004; MFA Fine Art, 2007) and in Sound Studies from Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin (2012). She is a Certified Deep Listening® Teacher through The Center for Deep Listening, New York (2022). Her practice has been developed through prestigious international residencies, including the Arvo Pärt Centre (2025), the Vasulka Chamber Residency at the National Gallery of Iceland (2017), and the NCCA Kronstadt, St. Petersburg (2016). In April 2026, she will join LabVerde in the Brazilian Amazon, a transdisciplinary program engaging forest ecosystems and indigenous knowledge.

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Through intentional, site-responsive interventions, Otzko creates immersive experiences that shift perception, foreground ethical engagement, and invite new modes of relational thinking. She co-founded the nomadic art projects Arctic Pavilion and ArtBase Helgeland 66N, extending experimental and cross-cultural practices across Arctic and Nordic landscapes. She presents her work internationally—in museums, galleries, and festivals—tracing the delicate threads between attention, place, and the relational forces that shape how we inhabit the world.

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Artist Statement

My practice is an exercise in staying present through the act of listening. I approach Deep Listening not merely as an acoustic act, but as an embodied, ethical commitment to the living archive of life beyond time. It is a methodology of resistance against the speed of contemporary consumption, a deliberate slowing down, a presence within the silence that invites whatever needs to arrive, to surface.

My work is an invitation to inhabit the "in-between" spaces—where the invisible takes form and the entanglement of human and more-than-human worlds becomes felt/present. Through this subtle invitation to witness, my aim is to shift the viewer’s perception from that of an observer to that of a participant, fostering a space where care and responsibility are not just concepts, but lived, relational experiences.