Resources
These resources are here to help you spend more time with the ideas, artworks and questions that sit around our programme. From visitor cards that prompt different ways of looking, to videos, reading suggestions, playlists and more, each resource is designed to open up new routes into our work and support deeper, more personal engagement.
The page will continue to grow over time, shaped by our exhibitions, artists and audiences. Whether you are visiting the gallery, reflecting afterwards or exploring from afar, these resources are an invitation to slow down, follow your interests and stay curious about art, creativity and the world around you.
Instructions for Alt listening by Freya Johnson Ross
Instructions for Alt listening is a new digital commission by Freya Johnson Ross, who asks you to find a place to pause in your day and consider how you listen to and consume forms of visual and audio media.
Here the digital world becomes the site for a workshop gathering. You are encouraged to activate the digital platform’s comment section as a site of the commons, where you can discuss and share your findings with peers near and far and participate in reflection for the post-internet age.
Through a series of five short instructional videos, Johnson Ross walks you through methods in which you can tune into the sounds you hear around you and reflect on our usually automatic processes of listening and looking.
Exploring deep listening, embodied sound, humming, monologues, and notations, Johnson Ross invites you to engage with her practice and find space to attune yourself to new ways of working and thinking.
Instructions for Alt listening continues on from Johnson Ross’s workshop delivered online as part of Humber Street Gallery’s OPEN House series. You do not need to have participated in the workshop to engage with these videos.
Sound, Image, and Text
Internal monologues
Notating sounds
Inner listening and vibration
Listening
About Freya Johnson Ross
Freya Johnson Ross is an artist, writer and researcher whose practice is focused on sound, multimedia installation and interdisciplinary listening – and how this relates to methodologies for knowledge production. Her work has addressed the politics of listening and the ethics of making and using personal and institutional archives. The process of translation and interrelationship between sound, text and moving image often sits at the centre of her approach. She is also increasingly preoccupied with the way we experience our psyches in the digital, post-internet, hyper-capitalist context in which we live. That is: something often fragmented and simultaneously riven and bound together by a huge volume of audio-visual ephemera. She is currently making work that captures this, as well as that can offer alternatives and ways of interrupting it – for example through meditative processes of slowing.
Visitor Cards by The Aimless Archive
The Aimless Archive was commissioned by Humber Street Gallery to consider ways in which visitors engage with our exhibitions and to provide new ways of doing so. The result is a new social resource for visitors in the form of The Aimless Archive’s Visitor Cards. These cards are adaptable – as visitors use them and conversations develop further cards will be added to the collection.
About The Aimless Archive
The Aimless Archive works across text – conversation – performance – collecting. It questions what we keep and what we get rid of by generating starting points for new and collaborative work, building archives as places for reflection and evaluation, and presenting unfinished and ongoing work. Repeatedly working in the area where artists and audiences meet, outcomes often take the form of (a book – a box – a by-product) or (a workshop – a scanned doc – a re-drafted piece of writing).
For more information visit www.theaimlessarchive.com and instagram.com/the.aimless.archive