Stories We Tell: Only Expansion and the sound of the future
Thu 22 May 19:00
Waterside 3 Event Space, Watershed
This is a free event, but you still need to book tickets.
What will our landscape sound like in the future?
Taking Only Expansion - an audio talk that reflects on what it means to live on a planet in crisis - as a starting point, the maker of Only Expansion Duncan Speakman and artist and activist Mel Evans discuss the piece more deeply. They'll also give you an opportunity to get a flavour of the sound piece.
Beautifully combining the sound of your surroundings with recordings of places from across the globe – Only Expansion is a visceral and poetic reflection on what it means to live on a planet in crisis. This event celebrates the opening of the exhibition, complementing the presentation of FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth in the main Undershed gallery.
About Duncan Speakman
Duncan Speakman is the maker of Only Expansion and is an artist based at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. He is best known for creating sonic experiences that engage audiences in uncontrolled public and private space, including installations on trains in Guangzhou, loudspeaker symphonies in New Zealand, audio walks in Saitama, and sound installations in Porto; he has also recently developed a number of hybrid print/digital experiments. From 2010 - 2015 he was co-director of the artists collective circumstance with Sarah Anderson, Emilie Grenier and Tom Abba. His current research is focused on the potential of sound in futures research.
About Mel Evans
Mel Evans is an activist, artist and writer who has spent many years exploring the global impacts of the oil industry. Through her campaigning work with Platform London,Green Peace and Liberate Tate, she has challenged the relationship between corporate power and the arts – and regularly reimagined the role of creative intervention in social change. She is associated with artists collective Liberate Tate and arts and campaigning organisation Platform, who challenge the global impacts of the oil industry. She is the author of Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts (Pluto, 2015) and has been involved in climate activism since 2005.
The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.