Featuring performances, live sets ands screenings from Harold Offeh, Chooc Ly Tan & Mohammed Rowe, Su Hui Yu and Shamica Ruddock.
This series is the development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative. The first iteration of Always Coming Home took place at Iklectik 2023 and carried on at Matt’s Gallery in 2024, as a starting point for ambient sensorial experimentation, a threshold for furthering the ideas of immersion, speculative world and conscious listening.
Each chapter from this on-going investigation aims at introducing a live performance, a moving image and a live musical set.
Thinking of change and flux as part of speculative futures and world building as ways of expressing current socio-political issues and expanding from there to potential other paths.
In line with this proposition, language, and other forms of expression, from the bodily to sound and the non-descriptive, are given a platform to create new ways of thinking and working together: the explorations and considerations of embodied practices as political disruptions.
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.” (Rose Bandt, Hearing Australian Identity:Sites as acoustic spaces, an audible polyphony, 2020)
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.
