Commissioned this new work by sound art collective Ultra-red, in conjunction with critical writing by cultural theorist Sadie Plant.
Drawing on the formal strategies of early conceptualism this site-specific installation and durational performance facilitated a discursive action that addressed issues of race and identity in contemporary Britain. Combining field recordings undertaken at sites of historical racial struggle with live commentary by recent immigrants, community leaders, legal advocates and sex workers, the encounter facilitated a creole of linguistic and sonic testimony.
Curated in collaboration with Nicolas Bourriaud as part of the Altermodern Triennial, Tate Britain, London 2008
Associate Curator for this exhibition presenting thirty-four international artists.
Synthetic Times explored what it means to be human at the threshold of human-machine symbiosis and at the vortex of convergent media, which blur the boundary between the physical and digital.
Installation, screen-based and sound art works were presented throughout the museum’s galleries and on the forecourt, with an adjunct program of film and electronic music.
Presented at the National Art Museum of China (NAMoC), as part of the Beijing Olympics Cultural Program 2008