Lunchtime Talk
Fri 26 Mar 2021 13:00-14:00 at YouTube Live
Listening to Water
Audiovisual artist, Kathy Hinde, shares sounds, images and experiences from encounters with watery environments, generated through durational, process-led enactments including Deep Listening walks and analogue film-making.
Photo Credit Ibi Feher
Speaker
Kathy Hinde
Kathy Hinde is an audiovisual artist whose practice embraces open methods and evolving processes. Through installations, performances and site specific experiences, she aims to nurture a deeper and more embodied connection to other species and the earth’s systems. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, Hinde's work represents a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented instruments. She frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process. Kathy joined the Cryptic Artist programme in 2015, was a selected artist for European SHAPE Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art in 2018, is a member of Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF) and a fellow at South West Creative Technology Network. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Sound Art in 2020.This Lunchtime Talk will be broadcast live on Watershed's YouTube channel.
As part of her research as a swctn data fellow, Kathy has been exploring methods to ‘re-wild water data’; her primary way into this being through the act of listening.
Kathy will share documentation from a series of participatory Deep Listening walks, which are an invitation for people to join her to explore a river, stream, wetland, or the tide, taking regular moments to pause and listen together, from an underwater perspective using hydrophones.
Out of these shared listening experiences, a further collaborative process emerged, with Bristol’s river Frome. This was realised through exposing river sediment and algae onto 16mm film developed using eco-processing techniques. Physical traces are generated through a direct encounter between the material qualities of the river and the film itself, effecting both the visual and audio track.
Kathy's creative practice is centred around ecological concern, and she will frame the presentation of her research from this perspective.
Join us on Fri 26th March, 13:00-14:00 for the talk and to take part in the discussion afterwards.
