Image: Recording at Watts Hut, Eastern Antarctica, 2010. Courtesy Philip Samartzis.
‘Site & Sound: Sonic Art as Ecological Practice’ published online in Artlink and in print Artlink April 2021
At the Site & Sound exhibition held at McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, something of the world itself – water flowing through landscapes, katabatic winds in the Antarctic, an empty glass bottle rolling along a pavement, human voices in the wake of a tsunami, a clicking dawn chorus of shrimps – is transmitted via its sonic residues.