April 2024, As part of Sonorities Festival Belfast, Threshold presents ‘This Street is a Song’ by sound and media artist Stephanie Loveless.
‘This Street is a Song’ emerges from an ongoing creative-research project in which Loveless explores
practices of situated listening in a vacant lot garden on the street in Albany, NY, where they have lived for the past decade.
To listen here is to reverberate with issues of public space, ruderal ecologies, food justice, sonic
territorialism, community engagement, violence, structural racism, and the environmental and economic
legacy of twentieth century urban renewal. ‘This Street is a Song’ attempts to hear, articulate, and share
some of the songs of this place.
https://sonorities.net/2024/events/this-street-is-a-song/
Stephanie Loveless is a sound and media artist whose research centres on listening and vocal
embodiment. Her recent projects include a mobile web-app for geo-located listening, and sound works
that channel the voices of plants, animals, and musical divas. She currently lives and works in upstate
New York, on the shores of the Mahicannituck, the river that is never still, where she is a Lecturer at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Arts, and Director of the Center for Deep Listening.
Loveless’s co-edited volume Situated Listening (forthcoming in 2024 via Routledge) is a collection of
essays on embedded, contextual, and critical listening.
Sonorities is a biennial festival of sound and music, making a joyful commotion in Belfast since 1981.
This year's festival features over 40 events including concerts, talks, exhibitions and sound walks.
https://sonorities.net/2024/
Exhibition dates - 4 April – 26 April
Open Monday/Tuesday/Thursday/Friday
10am-4pm
5 North Street
Belfast
BT1 1NA
Threshold is a new street-view gallery space in the two window displays of Flax Art Studios at 7 North Street. Curated by Jennifer Alexander, it invites artists to exhibit in flux, exploring the presentation of their work in an evolving way, and offering audiences a changing site of encounter.
Threshold is an opportunity to respond to the uniqueness of this space -Belfast’s smallest and newest gallery, with its large window displays in the oldest part of the city.
Curator Biography
Jennifer Alexander is an independent curator working in Northern Ireland. She is concerned with creating exhibitions that provoke notions of process.
Jennifer is Audience Development Assistant at Golden Thread Gallery. She was Co-Director of Catalyst Arts and currently co-curates for Belfast’s annual Re-Vision Performing Arts Festival.
Hailing from Scotland, she is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Technical & Production Theatre Arts. She worked in theatres across Scotland, focussing on lighting and sound production, before relocating to Belfast six years ago. She completed an MFA (Distinction) at Ulster University in 2020 and is a studio artist at Flax Arts Studios.