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2011
'On the Commons' Residency, The Banff Centre
2010
Sound of Ebb exhibition in Clandestino Festival, Gothenburg
Sound in Context screening at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Re-imagining Culture discussion event, A Foundation, London
Sound in Context screening at CENTQUATRE, Paris
Nønspace at The Gallery, Goldsmiths College, London

2009
Nønspace in HKSZ Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism, HK
Nønspace in Rencontre Internationale, Paris/Madrid/Berlin
Nønspace screening @ Asian Cultural Council, New York
Nønspace screening @ Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei
Seth Cluett, Benedict Drew, Rhodri Davies @ Cafe Oto, London

2008
DEC 7/8/9: NØNSPACE: preview exhibition
OCT 1: NOTCH HK
JULY 26/27: FOLKTALES FROM MANY LAND : exhibition
MAY 30: SHANSHUI RECORDS CHINA TOUR
APR 25: ANIMA FEMININE UNDERGROUND
APR 13: FOLKTALES FROM MANY LANDS : journey
APR 11: KAPITAL BAND 1
JAN 25: RUNAR MAGNUSSON & DICKSON DEE

2007
AUG-DEC : CATARACTNIGHTOFNEWNOISE @ various locations
NOV : SOUNDFROMTAIWANEVENT @ KLUUBB
OCT : LO<>NOTECHEXHIBITION @ Videotage
MAY : NOUFAUX RICHEVIDEOARTEVENT @ Baby Bar
FEB : SERIPOP DIY OR DIE EXHIBITION @ KAPOK

2006
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UPCOMING

News

Contribution to This is Not a Gateway book Critical Cities vol. 3 - Launching - coming..

5-11 Dec 2011: Primacy of Change, presentation, Nadine, Brussels

16 Nov 2011: Parataxis, presentation / exhibition, The Hair Cut Before The Party, The Hair Cut Before The Party, 26-28 Toynbee Street, London E1 7NE

Past:

Oct 2011: ENCATC Conference, 'Culture Forecast', Helsinki (DOXA)

Sound Localities Compilation, ** LAUNCHED ** (see below)

May 2011: Residency Banff Center, Canada

16 April 2011 - DOXA: Conference on the commons w/ ...MENT & Amateurist Network, Chisenhale Gallery, London

Mar 2011: Contribution to ..MENT journal

SOUND LOCALITIES ** LAUNCHED **

Locality: a situated place; a fact or condition of a particular position in space

Sound Localities is a project that explores the experience of sound in the city through field recordings and interviews with artists, individuals and organisations in 7 cities in the local, region and international space around Mons, Belgium. From Ghent, Brussels, London, Madrid, Hong Kong and Seoul, the project seeks to produce a wider dialogue in a transcultural space with and through sound as it flows through many complex social and cultural spaces. Individuals and organisations are asked to select artists working with sound in the city to contribute field recordings to express something about their city. These sounds are collected and shared online. Participating artists will be invited to create a mix from the sounds collected from the different cities that will be published in a compilation CD produced by Transcultures in 2011. 

The compilation includes mixes by: Julien Poidevin (FR), Will Montgomery (UK), Jiyeon Kim (KR),Sébastien Biset (BE), Edwin Lo (HK), Pauwel De Buck (BE), Yiorgis Sakellariou (GR), Sinyu Tsang (HK), and Martin Clarke (UK).

Download the full compilation: here

Full details on the project here: http://soundlocalities.tumblr.com

DOXA

DOXA is an an international collective of artists, theorists, designers, architects, engineers, etc. DOXA generates research through dialogue and facilitates production through experimentation. DOXA (δόξα) as common belief, as opposed to knowledge, is associated with community, dialogue and truth.

www.doxacollective.org

SOUND OF EBB

Sound of Ebb is an open source sound series that emerged as a response to the ‘global crisis’. The project asks artists working with sound to respond to the question: What is the sound of Recession?

To hear all submissions go to: www.soundofebb.wordpress.com
A curated selection of the submissions can be downloaded here:
Sound of Ebb compilation, 2010

 



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PUBLICATIONS

AUDIO RELEASES

Sound Localities (2011)
Sound of Ebb compilation (2010)


FILMS

'Engaging With Sound', Sound and Music, London(2010)
'Sound in Context', Sound and Music, London (2009)
'Nønspace', Hong Kong (2009)

ARTICLES

'Sound of Ebb' Compilation, Ursonate Fanzine, Spain, Feb 2011: Download PDF

INTO Magazine, Sound and Music, London, "Sound Travels: Sonic Culture in Korea" by Ashley Wong, Dec 2010/Jan 2011: Download PDF

DOXA PUBLICATIONS

'Re-imagining Culture: How to (and how not to) build a cultural economy', May 2010: Download PDF

'Re-claiming Culture from Industry and the UK Creative Economy: Towards New Configurations of the Artistic System', Nov 2010: Download PDF


PRESS

'Resonances' by Sébastien Biset, Flux News, Belgium, Mar 2011, (French): Download PDF

'Resonant Cities' brochure + interview, Belgium, Dec 2011 (French): Download PDF

Capsula, La Casa Encendida Radio, interview, Nov 2011, (Spanish): Download MP3

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOND FIRES

FALLEN EMPIRE

As the fire continues to cling on the roofs of a fallen empire, the charred black smoke lingers. Desperate bodies wander to find scraps to savour and remnants to rescue. Their aged bones are physically unable to rebuild to the mythical glory they once did 40 years ago. The Kingdom has crumbled. It has been ten years since the impending hit - 9/11- the event that created the first crack in the monumental symbol of wealth, power and security, and where we see for the first time, fear and doubt seeping into the human imagination. It was an American dream, a fallen dream, that once became everyone's dream that we are seeing beginning to shatter. But what is left?

In the dust and ashes of the decade to follow we see sudden shifts in values and visions. We see the election of the first president of colour, a sudden awareness of global warming, a scaling back of industries, the rise of the global south, and in 2008, a major global economic meltdown. A decade following the first meteorite in the shape of an aeroplane to penetrate psyche of a masses, what can we now fathom of the world? Can we accept that dust is dust and now we must build anew?

The fires of the forest continue to burn as nature claims its rightful power over humanity. The remaining debris of many human civilisations that came before lie buried in the Earth. Nature prevails over man once again.

What we see beginning to emerge from the ashes is a new consciousness and awareness of each other in the world and in nature. We see a new generation burning with energy. A generation left to undo, remake and re-imagine a new world that was destroyed by mislead visions progress of a previous generation. We see an ecological turning and a movement towards traditional forms of pedagogy, craftsmanship and knowledge sharing that was lost in industrialisation. But what now continues to burn is the fires that bring us together.

Around the fire we gather, to keep warm, to provide mutual support for survival. We talk, we share stories, we dream of the past. A new system is emerging one that connects us by ethernet that creates a model of the human mind and where we search for a collective vision. But there are forces trying to control it. A gripping past of former daemons that haunts us.

We believe, we worship the spirit that brings us together, and celebrate the fires that burn within us.


FIRES OF DESIRE

Fire is heat, and burning. Fires spread. It lies dormant in hotspots within the Earth, waiting to re-emerge again - connected by a network of embers. When a flame is killed, it can still grow strong again in another time and in another space. Fire moves silently - warming, cooling, sparking and burning. It is a fire of desire that lies within all our hearts. It is a desire that moves between us and that links us. There are no words for this desire that grows and burns. It is a desire that emerges and burns when fuelled and brought together collectively.

In a seeming apocalyptic time of immense change in a collapsed economy for culture as conservative governments around the world cut opportunities for artists, how do we maintain hope? How do we find space for the desire beyond economic concerns and to find new sustainable models of subsistence? Within a globalised community around the world, there is still a desire to create, and that fire will never die despite any economy or government support. How can we now begin to rebuild from the ashes a new world, a new vision of culture? How will it manifest in flames? How can we begin to spark imagination of new possibilities and utopias and to question the structures that have crumbled?

Flames spread, they grow and flare up.

We are a collective of artists from a generation lost of opportunities, lost in a time of great uncertainty, altering weather patterns, economic structural upheaval, social reorganisation through digital innovations and change. Fires of desire is a sparking and ignition of an exploration of new platforms and ideas of collective working to find and create our own visions and possibilities in a world of dwindling finances and hopes for the future.

DE LU XE 2011

 

 

 

CONTACT

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ABOUT

LOUDSPKR is a platform for experimental music/sound, media art, film/video, performance and multi-disciplinary arts. Through events, exhibitions, and artistic and curatorial projects, LOUDSPKR explores possibilities within community, collaboration, and critical arts practice.

Started in 2006, LOUDSPKR has produced events/exhibitions and projects in Canada, Hong Kong and London UK, engaging artists from Canada, US, UK, France, Germany, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Iceland and Austria.

> Promotes experimentation, collaboration and play
> Explores ephemeral moments of community and shared experience
> Navigates between disciplines of contemporary art, music/sound, film, and media art
> Responds to the broader social/political environment
> Negotiates across geographical and cultural territories and intervening within diverse technological and transnational spaces


LOUDSPKR is an entirely self-funded and independent project. All donations will go to further project development.


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LOUDSPKR is founded by artist, cultural producer and researcher Ashley L. Wong. Born and raised in Canada, she has a BFA in Digital Image/Sound and the Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal and an MA in Culture Industry at Goldsmiths University of London. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong where she was former project manager of Videotage - Media Art Organisation. She is co-founder of international research collective DOXA.

Contact: ashley(a)loudspkr.org

 

 

 

 

 

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ORGANISATIONS

UK/EUROPE

JOURNAL MENT
AMATEURIST NETWORK
SOUND AND MUSIC
LDNBRU
MEDIATELETIPOS (ES)
MUTE
ARTELEKU (ES)
VOLUME PROJECTS
DEPTFORD TV
PHASE 3 (BE)
TRANSCULTURES (BE)
DE LU XE (BE)
MOUSTACHE COLLECTIF (BE)
INFLAMMABLE PRODUCTIONS (FR)
VIBRO (FR)
APO 33 (FR)
L'INSTITUTE DE RECHERCHE ET D'INNOVATION (FR)
CAFE OTO
SOUND PRACTICE RESEARCH
CCS GOLDSMITHS

HK

KLACK
WHITENOISE RECORDS
KLUUBB
SOUNDPOCKET
ACO
URBAN NOMAD (TW)
MAPOFFICE
VIDEOTAGE
PARA/SITE ARTSPACE
KAPOK
IDN
SONATROPE

PEOPLE

RYAN JORDAN
ILIOS
RHODRI DAVIES
SETH CLUETT
BENDICT DREW
DAWN SCARFE

BEATRIX PANG
SAMANTHA CULP
ROBIN FOX
HUI-SHENG CHANG

DISCRIMINATING GENTALMEN'S CLUB
SERIPOP
MONSTRE
DISHWASHER
VIENNAPITTS
FYNAL GLAYSE
LUCKY DRAGONS
WIND-UP BIRD
WYRD VISIONS
NOCARSGO



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROJECTS

SOUND LOCALITIES / 2010

DOXA COLLECTIVE / 2010

ENGAGING WITH SOUND / 2010

THE END OF SOMETHING.. + SOUND OF EBB / 2009

SOUND IN CONTEXT / 2009

NØNSPACE / 2009

FOLKTALES FROM MANY LANDS / 2008

NOUFAUX RICHE / 2007


PAST ACTIVITIES

LOUDSPKR has produced events, exhibitions and curatorial and research projects in Canada, Hong Kong and London. LOUDSPKR has also produced a number of film-based works that have been screened and exhibited in London, Paris, Madrid, New York, Brussels, Gothenburg, Taipei and Hong Kong.

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Resonant Cities, Le Frigo, Transcultures, Mons, Belgium

Group Exhibitions

2010 Rencontre Internationale, video library, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2010 Sound of Ebb exhibition/screening, Clandestino Festival, Hey it's Enrico Pallazzo, Gothenburg curated by LDNBRU
2010 Nønspace in video library, Rencontre Internationale, Tabacalera - Futur National Centre for Visual Arts, Madrid
2010 Nønspace, The Gallery, Goldsmiths College, London
2009 Nønspace in HKSZ Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism, HK
2009 Nønspace in l'espace de consulatation, Rencontre Internationale, Centre culturel de Serbie, Paris

Screenings

2010 Sound in Context, Le Frigo, Mons
2010 Nønspace, This is Not a Gateway festival, London
2010 Sound in Context, Sound@Media, Moonji Cultural Institute, Saii, Seoul
2010 Sound in Context in Sottovoce Festival, London
2010 Sound in Context at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, curated by José Manuel Costa
2010 Sound in Context in Diagonales: Son, Vibration et Musique, Centquatre, Paris, curated by Vibro
2009 Sound in Context, Expo Festival, Leeds
2009 Nønspace screening, Asian Cultural Council, New York
2009 Nønspace screening at Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei
2008 Nønspace preview exhibition, Goldsmiths', London

Filmography (directed and produced)

2010 Engaging with Sound: A film exploring pedagogy and workshop leading as a creative practice, 25min
2009 Sound in Context: A film exploring the presentation of sound in the visual art world, 30min
2009 Nønspace, two-channel installation/filmic artwork on the notion of
'space' in Hong Kong, 23min

Projects/ Events/ Exhibitions (curated and produced)

2011 AMASS: Towards an Economy of the Commons (DOXA), Chisenhale Gallery, London
2010 LDN to HK via Sheffield (DOXA), Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
2010 Futures in Collective Working (DOXA), Weiden and Kennedy, London
2010 Re-imagining Culture workshop (DOXA), A Foundation, London
2009 The End of Something, Volume, London
2008 Folktales From Many Lands | exhibition, KLUUBB, Hong Kong
2008 Folktales From Many Lands | journey, 1a Space, Hong Kong
2007 Lo<->No Tech exhibition, for October Contemporary, Hong Kong
co-curated w/ Vanessa McRae (Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane)
2007 Noufaux Riche – video art event, Baby Bar, Hong Kong
2007 Seripop: Poster Art Extraordinaire, Kapok, Hong Kong
2006 Indian Summer, Blizzarts, Montreal

Events (produced and co-produced)

2009 Seth Cluett, Benedict Drew + others, Café Oto, London
2008 NOTCH Festival, Hi-Tech, Hong Kong
2008 10, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Shanshui China Tour, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Kapital Band 1, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Anima: The Feminine Underground, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Runar Magnusson and Dickson Dee, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Urban Nomad Film Festival, various venues, Hong Kong, producer
2007 Sound from Taiwan, KLUUBB, Hong Kong
2007 Sonatrope Film Festival, KLUUBB, Hong Kong, consultant
2007 Cataract monthly night of new noise (5-months), various venues,
Hong Kong
2006 Sand Festival, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
2006 Lucky Dragons + Windup Bird mini-tour, Toronto and Montreal

Talks / Presentations

2010 European Congress on Aesthetics, "Societies in Crisis", The National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid
2010 Group Presentation, Mulberry Tree Press, SE8 Gallery, London (Geopolyphonies)
2010 Group Presentation, Lecture Hall, Free School, Bethnal Green Library, London (Geopolyphonies)
2006 Art and Play, Shanghai Street Art Space, Hong Kong

Residencies

2011 Banff Centre, 'On the Commons' Thematic Residency, Banff
2010 Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, Transcultures, Mons, Belgium (3-months)

Grants and Awards

2011 University of Albert, Scholarship, Banff Centre, 'On the Commons' Residency, Banff
2010 Media Arts Travel Grant, Canada Council, Seoul
2010 Travel Grant, Ministry of Culture, Madrid
2010 Project funding, Openvizor, London (DOXA)

Guest Lectures

2010 La Cambre, École Nationale Supérieur des Arts Plastiques et Visuels, Brussels
2010 Kaywon School of Art and Design, Sound Design, Seoul, Korea
2010 City University, School of Creative Media, Sonic Art, Hong Kong