Sonic Detection: Necessary Notes for Arts and Performance

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Program 7:30p

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Ridgewood, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_single_image image=”164855″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]We’re delighted to present a very special evening to launch the publication of Sonic Detection by Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley!

Sonic Detection, published by punctum books, propels you up and down the UK coast and offers overheard fragments from a faded seaside resort, a container shipping port, a former coal-mining town, and the Scottish headquarters for North Sea oil. Part sonic noir, part performance document and part critical investigation of listening at the margins, Sonic Detection is for readers interested in prospecting the boundaries of performance, sound, and text.

Emerging from a decade-long collaboration between artists Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley, the book uses eavesdropping as an expanded creative methodology, taking in illicit listening-in and the accidentally overheard. Here, sonic detectives hold open a collective sonorous space. They are the embodiment of the phenomenophile, lingering longer in listening.

The launch event will include a performance lecture by Johanna Linsley that animates parts of Sonic Detection, sounds from Stolen Voices001 (a 2020 album that complements the book), and a conversation with Linsley about the project.

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Watch the conversation between Presenter1, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub.

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[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”164859″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Johanna Linsley is an artist and researcher who works across performance, text, and sound. Her work is collaborative and often iterative, resulting in multiple outcomes or versions. She is interested in contemporary performance;  sound, listening, and the voice; queer domesticity; and modes of assembly and collective imagination. She has published research in Contemporary Theatre Review, Performance Research, and Cultural Geographies and she is co-editor of the book Artists in the Archive (2018). Her work in performance and sound, both solo and with the London-based performance collective I’m With You, has been widely presented internationally. She is based at the University of Dundee, on the east coast of Scotland.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”164861″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Rebecca Collins (d. 2024) was an award-winning artist researcher and lecturer working at the intersection between contemporary performance and sound. Her main research interests were in listening, performance, sound studies, and creative/critical writing. Rebecca’s practice focused on the dynamics of the sonic operating within specific environments