The Echo, the Ear, and the Opening

A series of ongoing experiments in performance, writing and sound. 

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Inspired by the writings of Sara Ahmed, Donna Haraway, Saidiya Hartman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Rajni Shah, among others. I rethink the ancient Greek myth of the nymph Echo to explore ideas around fabulation, echolocation, queer adaptation, fragmentation and radical listening.  I ask how, as artists, researchers and teachers, we can justify making work in times of social, polictical and ecological crisis? 

So far, the experiments have materialised as seminar and conference presentations (in London, Lancaster and Gothenburg), brief performances (Guildhall School) and online talks but will coalesce into a book project in the coming years.