Her-Modulo: Duets

London based artist and musician Anneke Kampman presents the second iteration of Her-Modulo,with an evening of informal performances and workings-out by Anna Barham, Anneke Kampman, and Rachael Finney.

Duets [SpeakToMe/I’mListening] plays at the interface between body and device, working until the cassette ends and meets its beginning, or words loop through the mouth.

An autobiography of mis-directed signals, heart-flutters and algorithmic-emotions. Anna will read from her work addictive no an adjective; Rachel will initiate tape-on-tape feedback and Anneke will duet with text-based images laser written onto a CD-R.

Her-Modulo is an ongoing research project by Anneke Kampamn into music technologies and their shaping of culture and desire.

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Anneke Kampman is a London-based artist and musician working at the intersections of writing, performance, music, and the moving image. Her works draw from her own experiences as a musician alongside the methods and arguments of critical theory re-staging the techniques of the cultural industries in an “immanent critique” of pop.

Recent video and performance works explore the politics and multivalent histories of popular music’s global circulation via visual media such as music-video. She completed a practice-led PhD at the School of Fine Art in 2023. Anneke was an associate artist at Open School East (2016-2017) and resident artist at Somerset House (2018-2021) with the artist collective Common Study, where they facilitated a regular research programme.

Her work has been presented at San Mei Gallery, LUX Artist Moving Image Festival, Pump House Gallery, South London Gallery, Glasgow International Festival, Jerwood Space, Somerset House, La Monnaie De Munt, Café Oto, Mayday Rooms, Chapter Arts Centre, and BBC Tectonics Festival.

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Anna Barham is a London-based artist working across writing, sound, installation, video, and live events. Treating language as raw material, she explores how it shifts between technologies, bodies, and forms. Much of her recent work subverts speech-to-text software, to probe the materiality of the voice.

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Rachael Finney is a musician, composer, artist, and cultural theorist whose work examines histories and cultures of popular music, recording technologies, and the arrangements of sonic and musical space. Her practice frequently deals with the relationship between listening, voice and the body. Her work makes extensive use of reel-to-reel tape where she uses players to both process and present her work. Finney’s work has been utilised for both exhibitions and recorded media. This interest in sound and specifically voice originates from her background in DIY music where she continues to release work under the moniker R Elizabeth.