Placing your Ear to the Ground
Placing your Ear to the Ground
by Prajvi Mandhani
Placing your Ear to the Ground
Live Music Performance • Sat 18 July • 21:30 • Main Hall
Do plants listen to the water underground?
In this performance, a soundscape emerges through a mix of live looping sounds from contact mics, and recorded sounds from around Conway Hall. The field recordings, remember and reflect on entanglements within the urban landscapes around the site. The contact mics are dipped in glass vessels holding water from the Thames. Through touch and play, a noisy, resonant, and fluid soundscape begins flowing and evolving.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Prajvi Mandhani (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist from India living in the UK, working across video, sound, performance, drawing, installation and workshop facilitation. She is interested in researching intersections of art and climate justice, and locating and situating this within local surroundings and communities. She explores ways of using field recordings and live contact mic loops to create textural soundscapes responding to specific sites and environments. Through collaborative projects and workshops, she is interested in centring the narrative around climate change, as an ongoing result of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and zionism and exploring ways of reconnecting, observing, and learning from and with local ecologies.
