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November 2025 update
October was spent in Pärnu in Estonia where I was one of three invited artists to make a new work for exhibition as part of a new artist residency, by invitation of Janno Bergmann. The resulting work 'Totem of Frequencies" has been installed in Tempel Kultuuriklubi as a permanent fixture!
In addition, alongside what became another quite intense residency project, I managed to make the small sculptural piece "Deconstructed Radio #3" utilising a soviet-era transistor radio that blasts out white noise sporadically. The result of many last minute failures, I am very happy with this piece, which will be presented in the exhibition of Klangmanifeste 2025 in Vienna, Austria in December.
From the end of June until the end of September I developed the project "Revaluing the Worthless" for A4 Residency Center in Chengdu, China. I collected and was donated obsolete technology within the city to make the work, which was presented in the Snow Peak exhibition space, CPI zone, Chengdu. As well as this I also participated in the You And Me Festival, and two concerts in Chengdu, one with fellow resident artist Rhaissa Bittar and one with local artists Sun Wei, Yu Mingjing, Arm and Lee Kun.
Through May and June I was in Japan developing "Made to Malfunction in Chiba" for Chiba City Art Triennale, collecting various pieces of obsolete and unwanted technology from the local community to make a kinetic sound installation in a disused space in the city.
Here's a video of the work that is set and ready to be presented in September when the triennale opens:
After a quiet start to the year I was in Georgia and Armenia in April touring with Dolphin Hospital. And I also managed to focus on making a piece for radio, a new Channelling work commissioned by Katharina Schmidt for Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Cashmere Radio. Check out the project page for "Channelling Airwaves".
