
Art Block
Art Block
Listening Across Distance
Originally a live performance during Tate Britain's symposium 'Women in Revolt!: radical acts, contemporary resonances', this piece shares the praxis and the thinking behind Shortwave Collective's methodology of listening across distance. Through a distributed group practice, we listen for the electromagnetic transmissions embedded within a soundscape. We combine our individual and topical experiences into a collective network of listenings. We celebrate the fragility of what is heard, the intricate buzzes and clicks alongside the voices and music, reception as determined by the atmospheric conditions of the moment, or the sound of nothing at all when things do not work or there is nothing that we can hear. It is a plurality of possibilities that we listen to, rather than an illusion of singularity where there is one way of being and one body. These processes allow us to listen to the environmental transmissions that surround us in a way that is open and accessible to all.
Tags:
radio, performance
Year:
2024