Listening Session: Reimagination in Conversation by Hannan Jones and Shamica Ruddock

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Friday 25th July | 7pm

Nottingham Contemporary

Free Event 

Hannan Jones and Shamica Ruddock present Re-Imagination In-Conversation, a research-based sonic venture encompassing speculation, jazz poetics, improvisation and dreaming. This performative exploration of the in-conversation format explores a myriad of identified shared and diverging research interests spanning from Eduoard Glissant's Poetics of Relations to Female Voices in Revolution: Autobiography and Collective Memory in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade and Merle Collins's Angel; a text placing the orality of Algeria in relation to the oral traditions of the Caribbean. For this iteration, they work with a combination of electronics, percussion, and wind.

Together, Jones and Ruddock have performed for Counterflows Festival, Glasgow; Oscillations Festival curated by QO2, Brussels; Archive Books x Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Cafe Oto, London; Madeira Dig, Portugal; Silent Green, Berlin and La Chunky, Glasgow. They have held residencies with Akademie Schloss Solitude in partnership with Liquid Architecture for Algorithmic Poetry Web Residencies, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, and CCA Annex where they published 'Reimagining in Conversation' as an online audio-research-essay in conjunction with Rectangle Studios. Together they are currently artists in residence with Wysing Arts Centre Cambridge, supported by Forma and Knotenpunkt.

Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with cultural and social migration, and psycho-geography. Practicing at the intersections of sculpture, sound, moving-image and performance her intention is to find togetherness, even if temporary. Underpinning her practice is an evolution of sound, Hannan works with electronics, music concrete, improvisation and analogue recordings. Using samples and layering of audio material, she reclaims parallel histories, and reimagines connections between them. In 2023, she became a recipient of the Oram Awards, a platform to elevate the work and voices of women and gender non-conforming artists innovating in sound, music and related technology.

Hannan has practiced and performed live in basements, galleries, and at venues such as Caerleon Amphitheatre, Kings Place, Cafe Oto, La Chunky, and Tate Modern. Recently she has held residencies at WORM Sound Studio, Rotterdam commissioned by Radiophrenia and Triangle-Asterides, Marseille. She is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art's Sculpture and Environmental Art department, and previously an Associate Artist at Open School East (2020-21).

Shamica Ruddock is an artist-composer working across film, installations and live performance. Her experiments in sound are informed by a core investment in sound as a site for knowledge production. Interested in dynamics of displacement, transferral and legibility, through practice Shamica attempts to evaluate how these as processes contribute to the way we articulate the everyday, and how they operate as modes of production shaping inquiry. Narrative, allegory and the linguistic function of drum language are also core departure points.

Shamica has previously held residencies with Brussels based experimental sound lab QO2 and Somerset House Studios. Solo shows include Deciphering a Broken Syntax at the South London Gallery, a purpose built listening environment and accompanying 4-track record of the same name; and Palimpsests & Epithets held at Skēnē in Malmö, for which she explored dubplates and locked grooves. Solo live performances include Cafe Oto and Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus Stockholm. Shamica is currently a Sound & Music In-Motion Composer.

Access : 

This event will be held in The Space.

Speakers will use microphones.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.