Respondents (2024) Respondents is a project that includes performance, film and sonic-sculptures (Shield/Armour, Exoskeleton, Limpet and Mermaid) that invite close listening to elements sonically captured beyond the range of human hearing. Constructed in a hand shaping process used in custom automobile manufacturing and sensor technology, these sculptures explore and dialogue with organic elements such as […]
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Above Image: Audiograft Festival 2023, at Ovada Gallery. Still from footage by Tom Thistlethwaite. Audiograft 2023, curated by Patrick Farmer and Paul Whitty, the Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University, with the help of Oxford Contemporary Music. Sonic-sculptures installation consisting of stone, plant, and machine. Reeds, fipples and twine. For this audiograft residency and […]
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Stringing the Matrix is a sound-based performance and sculpture commissioned by Tate St Ives. The sculpture was in a solo exhibition with film Coil of Days, 3rd February – May 2nd 2022 at Tate St Ives. Performers and the audience wear wireless headphones to hear the 30-40 minute detailed sound textile piece being constructed. The […]
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Stringing the Matrix is a sound-based live performance using textile and sculpture. Commissioned by Tate St Ives it was originally created in response to the architectural vision of constructivist Naum Gabo. The sculpture was exhibited at Tate St Ives 3rd February – May 2nd 2022. Stringing the Matrix was performed at Tate St Ives, on […]
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Instrument was developed on residency at Bauhaus Foundation in 2021 and exhibited in Gropius Haus, Nov 2021 – Jun 2022, with works by Charlotte Posenenske / Curated by Alexis Lowry (Dia Art Foundation). “Instrument is a tool for navigating in fictional, collective spaces. The sensitive sound sculpture is a means to explore a complex infrastructure […]
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16th & 17th July 2022 at Towner Eastbourne. Above video clip: Tuning in a Vacuum, Performance Documentation (Tom Thistlethwaite) of Organ of Organs, 2021. Link here for more video excerpts from the performance. ‘Tuning in a Vacuum’ is a 40 minute live performance of seven sonic objects, where materials, space and sound were played out […]
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For one afternoon in May 2015, the Backstage Centre in Thurrock, Essex, became a space where the group dynamics of the community, an elemental part of the works, evolved inside and around the sculptures and structures. Each of these was choreographed one after the other across one space generating a changing set of rhythm […]
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Coil of Days is a live performance, film and series of seven sonic sculptures created in 2018-19. Extracts from Coil of Days film – Top: Chapter 4: Epic Nature is performed by Priya Mistry, Josefina Camus, Letizia Binda-Partensky and Céline Tschachtli, read by Amy Lay-Pettifer. Bottom: Chapter 3: An Evolutionary Remnant is performed by Priya Mistry and […]
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A series of multi-functional and customisable sensory instruments made for and in response to SEND young people and Early Years Children. The resulting sculptures will be available for groups to use at Tate Britain from 2024. PROTOTYPES: the below prototypes were photographed at the Teachers PV in the historical galleries ‘Art for the Crowd’ and […]
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ArtLab: Sound, Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2023-2026. Overall concept developed in collaboration with Dr. Louisa Penfold. Listening Wall and Sound Sculptures designed by artist Rita Evans. Synthesis Playground designed by Jørgen Noodt Skjærvold and Robin A. Ediger-Seto Fabrication by TwoSeven
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