Doors 7:00p
Program 7:30p
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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 following led by researcher, transmission artist, and editor Fabiana Vieira Gibim with Linsley following the performance. 

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Bios

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.

Fabiana Vieira Gibim is a researcher, transmission artist, and editor whose work centers on transaesthetics, radio art, and fugitive knowledge transmission. She was born on the border of Brazil and Paraguay, into the Guarani-Kaiowá nation, and currently lives in New York while working on her PhD. She is the co-founder of Sobinfluencia Press in Brazil and of Laboratório Noturno, dedicated to nocturnal methods of investigation. She is also a member of the editorial committee of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. As a Curatorial Fellow at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, she curated “Art, Protest and the Archives,” and as Wave Farm’s Radio Art Writing Fellow she researched counter-archiving in radio art, developing what she calls nocturnal archiving, most recently through the Deja Vudu Sound Archive on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, New York (https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/sc0a6v). Her radio art archives have been broadcast all over the world on Radiophrenia (Scotland), PosVerso – Bienal Internacional de Poesía Experimental de Argentina, Radia.fm, and others.

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 and technologies to explore methodologies of writing and making contemporary performance. She shared her scholarship and practice through multiple forms, including live performance, limited-edition vinyl, radio broadcasts, exhibitions, workshops, text scores, policy documents, and academic/experimental publications. Rebecca was a Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Shortly before her untimely passing, Rebecca had been named a Ramón and Cajal Research Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid (for 2024-29).