Collective Writing & Sonic Ritual workshop with Ami Clarke & John D’Arcy (Hive Choir)
Friday 8th August, 11am - 4pm (times to be confirmed.. please check with PS2 Gallery for details).
Location: PS3 at PS2 Gallery, 11 Rosemary Street, Belfast BT1 1QA.
This workshop is free to attend, please contact PS2 Gallery.
The collective writing workshop will be thinking through the many stories that run through Lough Neagh, that settle like sediment, constantly shifting, only to settle again - from a multi-species perspective. This workshop includes a polyphonic sonic ritual developed from the collective writing project, with John D’Arcy of HIVE Choir and QUB’s Sonic Arts Research Centre.
This workshop event connects with Ami’s ongoing project Meeting The Lough On It’s Own Terms, which will be exhibited at PS3/PS2 Gallery from Thursday 7th August until Saturday 27th September with other events planned during this time. See pssquared.org for full details.
Meeting The Lough On It’s Own Terms focusses on fostering new perspectives about climate change, by decentring the human amongst a multi-species perspective. With an emphasis on ways of ‘sensing’ via technological means, we might call this a more-than-human approach.
Coming from a posthuman research background, Ami is keen to emphasise the concept that we ‘emerge in synthesis with our environment’ that includes whatever technologies we have to hand. This complicates readings of what is ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ in any usual sense, by acknowledging that technology, from ‘language’ to our ‘smartphones’, affords us different capacities: to sense, to speak/communicate, and to whom, and starts to point to the limits of what it is possible to even think, in any given era. As tool users, we, as humans, emerge through prosthesis.
Ami spent two years filming and recording the lough at different scales, from 4K underwater video footage, to the microscopic scales of cyanobacteria, with audio recorded from the deepest site in the lough, as well as drone footage informing several video works and photographs, currently exhibited at PS2 gallery,