Site Built
solo Exhibition
Blank_, 2o23

Photo and video credit: Ronnie Danaher

Site Built was an exhibition and creative project responding to the area of Mabgate, Leeds. The exhibition consisted of kinetic sound devices and sculptures made from a deconstructed washing machine sourced from Mabgate and self-built circuitry.

This exhibition is the conclusion of year long project, made-up of a series of interpretive processes explored by the artist and a group of Music Performance students from Leeds City College. Beginning with two workshops in which the students and artist investigated and reinterpreted the soundscape of Mabgate through a listening walk, instrument design, score-making and improvisational performances. These performances were recorded and will be released at a later date.

Following this, the artist continued to develop the components into kinetic sculptures, designed for and built into the architecture of the gallery. Site Built can be understood as a process of re-physicalisation, developed through several layers of interpretation and utilising the same experimental and improvisational approaches throughout.