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Closed Caption Silences

Photinus Studio & Zoë Irvine
Time Based: Sonic Interventions
Curated by Arts and Parts (UK) & Time Based (Ukraine)

Exhibition
12.06 – 14.06.25

Preview
Thursday 12th June, 5–8pm

Open
Thursday and Friday, 11am – 5pm
Saturday, 11am – 6pm

Events
13.06.25

11am – 1pm, [synonym] session hosted by Gallery Bagging

To delve deeper into the work featured at David Dale Gallery, on Friday 13 June, A-J Reynolds & Eliza Coulson — the women behind experimental writing platform Gallery Bagging â€” will host a [synonym] session, a facilitated group writing session that will concentrate on the collaboration between the collective force that is Photinus Studios & Scottish composer and sound artist Zoë Irvine.  If you are looking to enhance your experience, to meet some new like-minded people and to improve your writing skills, then this session will be for you! 

Free: Booking here

 

1:30 – 2:30pm, Listening Session: Some Sounds May Be Triggering

One hour essay-like narration, illustrated by examples of sound practices and musical works that have emerged during the full-scale Russian war in Ukraine. Led by Olha Bekenshtein, music curator and founder of Time Based, this listening session uncovers documentary, memorial, resistive and live saving dimensions of listening in wartime and introduces recordings shaped by displacement, loss, urgency, and survival — but also moments of radical care, love, and aesthetic response.

Warning: The event includes audio materials that may be emotionally intense or disturbing.

Free: Booking here.

 

3 – 4pm, Panel Talk: Be All Ears

Speakers: Dmytro Tentiuk (UA), Daria Maiier (UA), Abie Soroño (PH), Raymond MacDonald (UK), moderated by Martel Ollerenshaw (UK)

In a world where focused listening is the biggest luxury, how do we attune to the sounds that escape human control – the murmur of forests, the deep time of landscapes, the thunder of a war?  This panel brings together artists, curators, and thinkers working at the intersection of music, ecology and AI to explore sonic environments shaped by forces larger than ourselves.  We ask: What does it mean to listen today? What does it mean to trust what we’ve heard? Can artificial intelligence capture that more objectively?  And how might environments sound in the future – and who, or what, will be there to listen?

Free: Booking here.

Closed Caption Silences — an installation by Zoë Irvine & Photinus Studio

Ukrainian new media artist group Photinus Studio will work with Scottish sound artist Zoë Irvine to create a sound installation bridging the sonic landscapes of Ukraine and Scotland. Dedicated to the sounds of non-human life, the installation explores the contrasts and connections between the two environments and will be presented as a ‘sonic object’ simultaneously in Glasgow and Kyiv.

Presented in collaboration with David Dale Gallery & Studios.

Zoë Irvine is an artist primarily working with sound, exploring voice, conversation, sound recording and the relationship between sound, image and text. Her artworks range from carefully crafted individual pieces for broadcast and?installation, to participative events. Zoë also is a sound designer specialising in artist film, experimental documentaries and radio works, and lectures in Sound for Film at Edinburgh Napier/ Screen Academy Scotland. She lives and works in Edinburgh.

Photinus Studio is a Kyiv-based new media art collective founded in 2012 by artists and musicians Max Robotov, Liera Polianskova, Ivan Svitlychnyi and Georgiy Potopalskiy. The studio has grown into a community of artists and specialises in creating interactive light and sound installations, multimedia shows and working with virtual reality and digital technologies. Their work has been featured in international contexts, including the Venice Biennale, Transmediale Vorspiel Festival in Berlin, Digital Cultures in Warsaw, etc. In 2022, they adapted to wartime conditions, with members becoming defenders, fighters, and volunteers, while some continued their artistic endeavours abroad to support Ukraine. 

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This installation is part of Time Based: Sonic Interventions — a festival of experimental music by Ukrainian and UK artists exploring the sounds that shape us, move us, and disrupt our world.

With a focus on the imperative to speak out and have your voice heard, the festival offers a unique platform for collaboration via live concerts, sonic happenings and audio-visual installations – weaving together the rich cultural heritage of both nations. A talks and public engagement programme further encourages audiences to pause, reflect, and connect, to demonstrate solidarity in the face of aggression and to engage with the beauty and danger of sounds beyond our control.

 

Time Based: Sonic Interventions invites audiences to experience a programme of compelling works that span cultures, genres and ideas, providing an exploration of sound, place, collaboration and resilience.

Time Based: Sonic Interventions is curated by Olha Bekenshtein (UA) and Martel Ollerenshaw (UK) and a co-production between Time Based, a platform dedicated to advancing contemporary performance arts in Ukraine and Arts & Parts, a platform for the presentation of interdisciplinary art.

Time Based: Sonic Interventions is funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants, which are designed to support UK and overseas organisations to collaborate on international arts projects. More information here.

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