AMIAS HANLEY
About
Through sound and spatial media, I explore auditory-led questions that engage queer ecologies and transgender studies. Central to my practice is the question of how listening processes can give rise to the experience of ecological awareness and how auditory sensations produce senses of being, place, and relationality. These inquiries are often site-responsive, generating speculative encounters that aim to offer sonic propositions for engaging composite forms and conditions.
Currently, my research-practice focuses on exploring the purposes and mechanisms used by plants, animals, and machines to interpret and produce audio signals. I am particularly interested in investigating the artistic possibilities and influence of these processes on the futures of sonic communication, sound ecologies, and auditory cultures.
My artworks, installations, and collaborative projects have been shown internationally with organisations, festivals, and galleries including: Ars Electronica Festival, Avantwhatever Festival, Gertrude Contemporary, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Liquid Architecture, McClelland Sculpture Park Gallery, MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio), Next Wave, Speak Percussion and The Substation. I have published sole and co-authored papers for Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Disclaimer Journal and III International Conference on Sonorities Research (CIPS).
Image: Devika Bilimoria