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New Dialogues with Sound
Responding to these questions throughout a year-long artist residency, Joshua Woolford has created six new sound pieces for the Tate Britain collection. Throughout their residency, they have explored the potential of sound to create dialogues with artworks through talks, sound pieces and live performances.
Over the last 12 months, Joshua Woolford has created and shared live performances at the Queer and Now festival in June 2023 and the Late at Tate Britain: Desire, Culture and History in August 2023. They have hosted a sound workshop with local youth organisation City Lions and held a reading group between Tate and iniva with PRIM, the platform for queer Black storytelling.
Woolford has actively explored the power and potential of ‘building communities around questions’. Throughout the residency, they have collaborated with a number of artists and musicians including Tawiah, Lie Ning, Tia Simon-Campbel (Sippin’ T), Tereza Delzz, Zein Majali, Kenichi Iwasa, Anne Duffau and Nwakke.
In response to Mona Hatoum’s Present Tense, Woolford has connected with Radio Alhara and Learning Palestine to create a sound piece. They have included elements from their 12hr radio programmes, excerpts from Jayce Salloum’s interview with Soha Bechara, alongside field recordings of artisanal soap-making in the West Bank of Occupied Palestine, recorded by Morgan Totah from Handmade Palestine. Through building these networks and dialogues around artworks, Woolford surfaces new narratives around Tate’s collection.
Photography by Anna-Lena Krause
Curator: Hannah Geddes