PRESENT FUTURES DUNDEE / Panel Session: Futures of Listening

Suk-Jun Kim, SHHE and Samir Kennedy. Introduction by Colette Sadler

Panel Session: Futures of Listening

Talk & Panel Discussion

Wednesday 10th September

7.15pm

Centrespace 1 @ Dundee Contemporary Arts

(Situated on the lower floors of DCA)

Duration: 60 mins

Age: 18+ (Under 18 to be accompanied by an adult)

What is going to happen to the ways in which we listen in a couple of decades? Seemingly simple and innocuous, the question about the possible futures of listening opens up many issues and concerns entangled in a world of what Rosi Braidott (2019) calls the posthuman convergence where we are moving in a slow-yet-fast crashing course towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Sixth Mass Extinction all at the same time.

In this panel discussion, Suk-Jun Kim, professor of electronic music and sound art at the University of Aberdeen, is joined by sound artist and producer SHHE and choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist Samir Kennedy to explore how our listening will change in the future and how those possible futures of listening will transform us and our engagement with others.

Biographies:

Suk-Jun Kim is a South Korean composer, sound artist and professor of electronic music and sound art at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Kim is the author of Humming: the Study of Sound (Bloomsbury) and Hasla (Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg). In 2023, he initiated a large-scale sound studies and sound art project Futures of Listening by collaborating with the National Asian Culture Center (ACC) in South Korea and has led its Sound Lab Team as senior researcher between May and December 2023. Between 2024-25, Kim is the Principal Investigator for Futures of Listening: Water Knowledge from Two Cities, an ISPF ODA challenge-oriented research project funded by the British Academy.

SHHE is the alias of Dundee-based Scottish-Portuguese sound artist, musician and producer, Su Shaw. Her work explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection of sound and space, environment and ecology, and research and performance. Sound works, performances and installations have been presented at V&A Dundee co-commissioned by MSCTY Tokyo, Sonica Glasgow, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Edinburgh Festival, Celtic Connections, Summerhall, Radiophrenia (Scotland) and in Portugal, Iceland, Spain, Brazil, Egypt, and Iraq-Kurdistan. Her eponymous debut album was released by One Little Independent Records and shortlisted for Scottish Album of the Year. Mini-album, ‘DÝRA’, was released in 2024. SHHE is a Cryptic Artist, alumna of Julie’s Bicycle Creative Climate Leadership programme and co-founder/producer of dundee radio club.

Samir Kennedy is an independent artist based between London and Marseille working at the intersections between choreography, performance, sound and video. His works have been presented with Actoral, Battersea Arts Centre, Centre For Live Art Yorkshire, ICI- CCN Montpellier, Humber Street Gallery, Rote Fabrik, SPILL Festival, Sophiensaele, Southbank Centre, Les Mouvements, Les Urbaines, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève, Ménagerie de Verre, Théâtre de Vanves, Théâtre Garonne, The Place Theatre and Wainsgate Dances. In addition to his choreographic work, Samir is a burgeoning sound artist, His sonic compositions complement and expand the thematic concerns of his visual and performative work, creating immersive environments that seek to heighten the embodied experience of audiences.

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ABOUT PRESENT FUTURES DUNDEE

SATELLITE DUNDEE

10-11th SEPTEMBER 2025

Wednesday 10th: Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)

Thursday 11th: Dundee Rep and Dundee & Angus College

The sixth edition of “Present Futures” will see the festival move from its base at CCA in Glasgow to the city of Dundee at Dundee Rep, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and Dundee & Angus College. Over two days this satellite edition of the festival, will bring together local and international artists working at the intersection of performance, music and visual arts. Through a series of performances, talks and workshops the festival invites artists and audience to consider the complex entanglement and interdependencies of human and “other than” human as we enter collectively into precarious and unknown futures in the wake of ecological transition and crisis.

For information on the full programme, access and how to experience the festival visit: www.presentfutures.org

CREDITS

Present Futures Dundee is funded by Creative Scotland. Supported by Generator Projects, Dundee Rep, Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee & Angus College, Dundee Contemporay Arts (DCA) and Goethe Institut.

ACCESS

R: Relaxed Performance - Audience can come and go

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Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)

152 Nethergate

Dundee

DD1 4DY

Centre opening hours

Sun-Thu: 10:00 - 23:00

Fri: 10:00 - 00:00

Sat: 10:00 - 01:00

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