Always Coming Home Final ACT

What to expect: an immersive night of live music and DJs sets with iconic electronic musicians and artists

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This series is the development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative.

Each ACT from this on-going investigation aims at introducing a live performance, a moving image and a live musical set, part work-in-progress, part from a newer body of work from the practitioners, these events are a site of experimentation.

A reference/inspiration is the work by Pauline Oliveros with the Deep Listening method aspiring to explore expanded consciousness – “Acoustic space is where time and space merge as they are articulated by sound.”

The aim of these projects is to build a network and community of artists that have not yet performed together and to introduce to an audience a set of practices – ranging from sound, soundscapes to visuals immersions as well as acting as a ‘wakening’ agents.

A---Z aims to impose a collaborative, inclusive and critical practice/praxis – this demands a responsibility to decolonise programmes, build on positivity towards/and inclusivity in terms of gender and race discourses, and demonstrate openness, intersectional, responsive and critical juxtaposition methods.

The title is an homage to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, where the reader follows the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed.

BIOGs:

Hawazin O

Hawazin O is an American-born Saudi artist based in London, working across painting, installation, sound, and curatorial practice. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts, and is currently completing a second MA in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Alongside her visual practice, her engagement with sound developed through a monthly radio show on Radio Flouka in 2021, which marked the beginning of her DJ practice. She has since been featured on platforms including Radio Alhara, Movement Radio, and Balamii

Radio. Her performances include appearances with collectives and at events such as the Southbank Centre, Habibti Nation, and Sound of Noize.

utopian_realism

utopian_realism utopian_realism is a research-driven music project that originates from a fascination with the aesthetics and communities revolving around internet-native music

genres and explores concepts of nostalgia cycles, controlled escapism, commodified utopian narratives and collapsing myths of progress.

Shamica Ruddock

Working across film, installation and live performance, Shamica Ruddock is an artist and a composer whose experiments in sound are informed by a core investment in sound as a site for knowledge production. Interested in dynamics of displacement, transferral, capture and legibility, through practice Shamica attempts to evaluate how these as processes contribute to the way we articulate the everyday. Other research interests extend to acoustics and the built environment, narrative and allegory, bass resonance and the linguistic function of drum language. Shamica has previously held residencies with Brussels experimental sound lab QO2, and Amant Foundation New York. Solo shows include Deciphering a Broken Syntax at South London Gallery (UK) and Palimpsests & Epithets held at Skēnē, Malmö (SE). Solo live presentations include Cafe OTO (UK), Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus (SE) and ArtHouse Jersey (UK). Shamica is currently a Sound and Music In Motion composer. Shamica has an ongoing sound based research project with artist Hannan Jones. Performances include Silent Green Future Soundscapes Festival (DE), Madeira Dig (PT), and Oscillation Festival (BE). They are currently Wysing Arts Centre Artist-in-Residence, supported by Forma and Knotenpunkt.

Solanaceae (Johann Arens)

Johann Arens works with installation and collage to survey how shared infrastructures impact our communal life and shape civil behaviour. These site-related works respond to facets of the public domain; community centres, schools, hospitals, digital learning centres, internet cafes, local markets as well as art spaces and are often tailored to be platforms to celebrate and spark forms of communality. In this context he plays music under the handle Solanaceae and works since 2020 with researcher Dr. Hanna Baumann on the long-term food justice project Another Provision.

He has realised public art commissions with Arnolfini Bristol, Bold Tendencies, Jerwood Space London, Kettle’s Yard Cambridge and UCL Culture and amongst others exhibited at nGbK Berlin, Manifesta13 Marseille, Pump House Gallery London, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, P/////AKT Amsterdam, IFFR Rotterdam and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.