Hard Drives Soft Walks

Starting as strangers, the artists Martina O'Shea and Seren Metcalfe the document as a means to form a greater understanding of each other's practices: memory / material / sound / structures. The conversation evolved into monologues, poetry and eventually a 12-minute soundtrack which is presented as a coloured insert.

“The show ‘Hard Drives, Soft Walks’ which was held in Chemist Gallery from January -February 2023 was a mashed-up journey of two artists Martina O'Shea and Seren Metcalfe, from night clubs to mud larking, glitching landscape, tv soaps, late night walks and half-remembered dreams. The centre of the installation is a collaborative sound piece: two voices telling tales through radio static, located in an ever-changing vista of London, Ireland and Yorkshire. Fields, birdsong hit against traffic jams and sirens, mummers and echos from TV sets counter to techno beats transformed into the bodhrán. The city remains and construction materials, pop memorabilia and programmed lights are forming a ghostly, theatrical set of the ever-in-flux space between body, place and time.”

https://chemistgallery.com/Hard-Drives-Soft-Walks-1

Curated by Kineret Laurie and Ross Hammond