With Pebbles Under My Tongue

With Pebbles Under My Tongue is a series of events and installations looking at creative responses to contemporary conflicts in our landscapes and planet.

A collection of films and sound installations by David Chapman, Kate Davies, Anne Haaning, Sonia Levy, Thomas Pausz and Louis K Wilson will be installed in the AA Library for the duration of the series from 23 April – Friday 3 May.

With increasing pressures placed on the planet through resource extraction and territorial tensions our occupation of the land is under immense scrutiny. And with this we are seeing an increase in creative responses to landscape and the natural world.

Our voices and the words we choose to use are soaked with political and poetic power and can help us define and understand the spaces we occupy. The series looks at how practitioners from different fields use media to explore these conditions and what languages and forms of voice they adopt. It is seen as a celebration: of the forms of expression that we find to understand our environment and to coerce and resist the powers that exist around us.

The display runs in parallel with two evening performances that will take place in the Front Members Room; Act I - Erin Robinsong & Nick Ryan on 23 April, and Act II - Tasneim Zyada and guests on 30 April, from 6.30pm.

With Pebbles Under my Tongue is organised by Jumanah Bawazir, Inigo Minns and Aoi Phillips.

Image: Kate Davies, By the Sound of Things