Pink Loudspeaker • Issue #60
Weekly listings of UK and Irish sound art (09–15 Dec 2024)
Pink Loudspeaker is a weekly roundup of sound-related exhibitions and events taking place across the UK and Ireland.
Issue #60 covers events for the week of 9th–15th December 2024. We’ve found over fifty sonic artworks, exhibitions and events across the British Isles that you can experience this week.
We’ve been publishing these listings weekly on Instagram since October 2023 and have recently started sharing them here on Substack as Pink Loudspeaker. We post on both platforms every Monday.
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Towards New Worlds
📍 MIMA, Middlesbrough
🗓️ 19 July – 09 Feb 2025
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art’s current exhibition Towards New Worlds explores a range of perspectives on sensorial perception. The show presents works from fifteen disabled, D/deaf and neurodiverse artists who articulate their experiences of seeing, hearing, feeling and sensing the world.
Aaron McPeake’s interactive installation Same Same but Different features bronze bells that can be struck by visitors. The bells are arranged in pairs that are seemingly identical but reveal differences in their sonic characteristics once activated. Seo Hye Lee’s [sound of subtitles] considers the representation of sound and silence through creative exploration of captioned audio descriptions.
“The exhibition explores a rich variety of human perceptions and sensory experiences through works of art, which make connections between the artists’ internal worlds and their external environments. The artworks consider issues in the contemporary world, including justice, ecological consciousness, connectivity and care.” – MIMA
Palestinian Sound Archival Resistance
📍 Bread and Butter Lounge, London
🗓️ 15 Dec 2024
The Palestinian Sound Archive is a nomadic archive of musical artefacts from historic Palestine curated by Mo’min Swaitat. After popular exhibitions at London’s Southbank Centre and De Nieuwe Liefde in Amsterdam, the archive returns to London for a listening session at Shoreditch’s Bread and Butter Lounge. These events explore decolonial listening, using media preseveration as an act of resistance. Expect selections of Palestinian jazz, folk, field recordings, spoken word and more.
“Palestinian Sound Archive was born out of the archive and is focused on sampling, remixing and reissuing vintage Palestinian and Arab albums, shedding new light on the richness and diversity of Palestinian and Arab cultural and musical heritage. Swaitat comes from a long line of Bedouin musicians and storytellers, and the archive references his rootedness in music as a means of celebrating one’s culture and sense of belonging. He plays everything from jazz to funk, soul to dabke, field recordings to spoken word, and folk to electronic music from Palestine, the broader region and across the Global South.” – Palestinian Sound Archive
Sonic Laboratory with Ben Swaby Selig
📍 Orleans House Gallery, London
🗓️ 11 Dec 2024
Orleans House Gallery has programmed a number of Creative Laboratory events to coincide with Gary Stewart’s current exhibition ‘A Ripple in Time’ (on until 23 February 2025 – recommended!). For the next event in the series, Gary Stewart will be joined by artist Ben Swaby Selig. Together they will explore themes of land, memory and dub. The event will feature a conversation between the two artists and present ‘Sound Clash’, Selig’s collaborative work with filmmaker Hannah Oliver.
“Sound Clash uses soundscapes to encourage active listening, bridging East London and Jamaica. It combines archival recordings and interviews via Jamaican sonic practices to consider our relationship to land, gentrification and dislocation.” – Orleans House Gallery
Everything on this week:
🔊 LONDON LISTINGS 🔊
Sonic Laboratory with Ben Selig
📍 Orleans House Gallery, London
🗓️ 11 Dec 2024
Longplayer Conversation 2024: Kate Briggs and Daisy Hildyard
📍 Swedenborg House, London
🗓️ 12 Dec 2024
Sonic Architectures: Gascia Ouzounian & Mhamad Safa – Counter-Listening (lecture)
📍 Royal College of Art, London
🗓️ 12 Dec 2024
Raven Chacon – Background Music
📍 Chelsea College of Arts, London
🗓️ 03 Oct–13 Dec 2024
Meta_Morphosis: Deformations on Topology
📍 Hypha Project Space Paddington, London
🗓️ 13–14 Dec 2024
Transfeminisms (Chapter V: Hidden Labours)
📍 Mimosa House, London
🗓️ 08 Nov – 14 Dec 2024
Palestinian Sound Archival Resistance
📍 Bread and Butter Lounge, London
🗓️ 15 Dec 2024
Topology
📍 Hypha Project Space Paddington, London
🗓️ 21 Nov – 15 Dec 2024
Reverb
📍 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
🗓️ 21 Nov – 18 Dec 2024
Temitayo Shonibare – Free Love
📍 Studio/Chapple, London
🗓️ 08 Nov – 21 Dec 2024
Losing The Plot
📍 Hackney Downs Studios, London
🗓️ 07 Nov – 21 Dec 2024
REVERB
📍 180 The Strand, London
🗓️ 22 May 2024 – 22 Dec 2024
In the Footsteps of the East London Group
📍 Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, London
🗓️ 04 Oct - 22 Dec 2024
Squidsoup – Lost in Light
📍 Curtain Call, London
🗓️ 25 Oct – 30 Dec 2024
Haegue Yang – Leap Year
📍 Hayward Gallery, London
🗓️ 09 Oct 2024 – 05 Jan 2025
Tiziana Alocci – Tokyo Love Story
📍 ArtMoorHouse, London
🗓️ 03 Oct – 08 Jan 2025
Es Devlin – FACE to FACE: 50 Encounters with Strangers
📍 Somerset House, London
🗓️ 23 Nov – 12 Jan 2025
Shino Yanai & Ken Ikeda – Memories Float for a Moment and then Fall
📍 Beaconsfield, London
🗓️ 15 Nov 2024 - 18 Jan 2025
Evan Ifekoya – A Score, A Groove, A Phantom, A rukus!
Making a rukus! Black Queer Histories Through Love and Resistance
📍 Somerset House, London
🗓️ 11 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Jana Winderen – The River
📍 Natural History Museum, London
🗓️ 26 July 2024 – 26 January 2025
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst – The Call: New Rituals for Collaboration with AI
📍 Serpentine North Gallery, London
🗓️ 04 Oct 2024 - 02 Feb 2025
Mike Kelley – Ghost and Spirit
📍 Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 03 Oct 2024 – 09 March 2025
Nassim Azarzar – Hayat al Noujoum / La vie des Étoiles
📍 The Showroom, London
🗓️ 26 July 2024 – 07 July 2025
🔊 LISTINGS FOR ALL OTHER CITIES 🔊
Life Story in Sound with Paul Nataraj workshop
📍 Me To A Tee, Blackburn
🗓️ 12 Dec 2024
SoundEscapes
📍 Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
🗓️ 06 Dec 2024 – on-going
Listen Club #19: Sound Art Brighton
📍 The Rose Hill, Brighton
🗓️ 11 Dec 2024
Works in Progress II
📍 Dissenter Space, Edinburgh
🗓️ 14 Dec 2024
The River Project: Reconnecting the Connectivity
📍 Ampleforth Abbey, York
🗓️ 11–20 Dec 2024
Charles Mauleverer - Lithophilia
📍 La Hougue Bie, Jersey
🗓️ 21 Sept – 20 Dec 2024
Into The Wyld
📍 07 Nov – 21 Dec 2024
🗓️ Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
Pass Shadow, Whisper Shade
📍 Collective, Edinburgh
🗓️ 18 Oct – 22 Dec 2024
Winter at Sizergh
📍 Sizergh (National Trust), Sizergh
🗓️ 22 Nov - 24 Dec 2024
Tape Letters Scotland (Dundee)
📍 Central Library, Dundee
🗓️ 22 Oct 2024– 31 Dec 2024
Voices of Christmas
📍 Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury
🗓️ 07 Dec 2024 – 04 Jan 2025
Mikhail Karikis – Songs for the Storms to Come
📍 Home, Manchester
🗓️ 12 Oct 2024 – 05 Jan 2025
Sound Pressure
📍 Modal, Manchester
🗓️ 25 Oct 2024 – 07 Jan 2025
Paul Rooney - Broken Token
📍 The Box, Plymouth
🗓️ 19 Oct 2024 – 12 Jan 2025
Isobelle Munckton – Hive
Colony
📍 Aspex, Portsmouth
🗓️ 25 Oct 2024 – 12 Jan 2025
ROOTS: A dialogue in Textile and Poetry
📍 The Coach House Gallery, Dublin
🗓️ 26 Sept – 19 Jan 2025
Paul Nataraj – Repetitions of 108: Counting Almost Nothing
Jerwood Survey III
📍 Site Gallery, Sheffield
🗓️ 27 Sept 2024 – 26 Jan 2025
Alliyah Enyo – Selkie Reflections
Jerwood Survey III
📍 Site Gallery, Sheffield
🗓️ 27 Sept 2024 – 26 Jan 2025
Cosmotechnics
📍 FACT, Liverpool
🗓️ 08 Nov 2024 – 26 Jan 2025
Tape Letters Scotland (Glasgow)
📍Tramway, Glasgow
🗓️ 12 Oct 2024– 31 Jan 2025
Towards New Worlds
📍 MIMA, Middlesbrough
🗓️ 19 July – 09 Feb 2025
Aliyah Hussain – She was waiting for her roots
Local / National / International
📍 The Lowry, Salford
🗓️ 23 Nov 2024 – 16 Feb 2025
Maryanne Royle – The Land That Has Fallen Within You
📍 Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, Rossendale
🗓️ 14 Nov 2024 – 23 Feb 2025
Tape Letters Scotland (Edinburgh)
📍City Art Centre, Edinburgh
🗓️ 03 Oct 2024 – 23 Feb 2025
Scott Myles - Head in a Bell
📍 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
🗓️ 27 July 2024 – 23 Feb 2025
Zinzi Minott
Conversations
📍 Walker Gallery, Liverpool
🗓️ 19 Oct 2024 – 09 March 2025
Hannah Perry – Manual Labour
📍 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
🗓️ 22 June 2024 - 16 March 2025
Soundmarks York
📍 DIG, York
🗓️ on-going
Jamie Jenkinson – Nattering
📍 Millom Library, Cumbria
🗓️ on-going
Susan Philipsz - By Sound Near Seawall
📍 Whitehaven Harbour, Cumbria
🗓️ on-going
Full listings
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