Anna Barham, 'ZYX'
Matt’s Gallery is pleased to present ZYX, a new audio installation by Anna Barham, her second exhibition at the gallery.
Barham works with sound and installation, treating mishearing as a way of thinking that produces meaning as language moves between bodies, technologies and material forms. ZYX centres around a voice recounting a psychedelic experience accompanied by a spatial soundscape of incidental, bodily, and environmental sounds.
The work brings human and machine perception into dialogue by thinking through hallucination, contrasting hallucinatory states associated with grief or psychedelics with speech-to-text misrecognitions and fabrications of language. Barham created an audio filter to force such machine “hallucinations” by emphasising paralinguistic features of speech (hesitations, repetitions, breath, accent, and vocal strain) shifting attention from semantic meaning to the material qualities of voice.
ZYX is supported by The Elephant Trust, and Ruskin School of Art.
Event Performance Details
Event Location
Matt's Gallery
Venue Info6 Charles Clowes Walk
London
SW11 7AN
