with Alisa Oleva, Grant Smith and Mort Drew from Soundcamp, Svitlana Dovbush, Lia Mazzari and Evgenia Tsianou
Thursday 28 August
5-7 p.m UK time
Online, Free
Tickets available here
This online conversation brings together various artists, thinkers and makers to reflect on the work of Sounds Like Home: Listening Gardens by Alisa Oleva and some of the themes it touches: commons, listening, livestreams, portals, distance, home, migration, gardens, infrastructures, and solidarites.
Alisa invites friends and colleagues who she met at various moments on her artistic journey, including those directly connected to Sounds Like Home and some who got to know the project through her own descriptions. In conversation will be Grant Smith and Mort Drew from Soundcamp, Svitlana Dovbush, Lia Mazzari and Evgenia Tsianou, hosted by Alisa herself and Peter Reed from Compass.
We will start with short introductions to Sounds Like Home: Listening Gardens and to everyone’s practices, observing how they resonate and where they touch each other. We hope some of our audiences will also feel like joining the conversation, and contribute with questions and comments throughout the talk.
Listening Gardens is a continuation of a collaboration between artist Alisa Oleva and Dasha Zakharets, from Kamianske, Ukraine, now based in Leeds. The work was hosted over this summer at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm. You can learn more about the work here.
Soundcamp (2013–) are an arts cooperative based at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe and Work Shop 1 in Loughborough Junction, with members in Glasgow, Berlin, Yorkshire, Crete and The Netherlands. They are interested in diy infrastructures that can move live sounds between places and situations, and give attention to less heard human and non-human communities. Their work appears as live transmissions, workshops, sound devices and events.
Svitlana Dovbush is an Ukrainian artist, born in Kyiv in 1996. She works with moving image, sound, photography, and performance. Her practice explores productive archiving, corporeality, and the relationships between humans, nature, and technology. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Svitlana has worked across Ukrainian cities as a producer with international media outlets such as ZDF (Germany), Corriere della Sera (Italy), RAI (Italy), and ANSA (Italy). Since September 2023, she has been studying time-based and visual arts at the University of the Arts London (UAL), Central Saint Martins.
Lia Mazzari is a sound artist and researcher. In her practice she engages audiences through encounters with art in non-conventional spaces using performance, composition, installation and intervention. Recorded and live events explore her relationship to sound and listening through environmental recording, cello, voices, whip cracking and most recently live audio streaming methods. She is currently a postgraduate researcher at the Department of Geography at RHUL, London.
Evgenia Tsianou is a Science Communicator, DISSCO Founder and a Science Communicator & Project Assistant at Paul Scherrer Institute. Evgenia has contributed to diverse initiatives designed to elevate public engagement with cutting-edge environmental projects across Europe. As the Founder of DISSCO and the Science Communicator and Project Assistant at Paul Scherrer Institute, she applies her project management expertise to create and deliver innovative science communication strategies, utilizing storytelling, citizen science, and playful activities. Evgenia is dedicated to democratizing research and making science participatory for all. Her engagement strategies extend across various platforms, from digital channels to in-person events, effectively reaching people wherever they are in their environmental journey. Her work is guided by the belief that everyone should have the opportunity to contribute to and benefit from scientific advances, particularly in the context of environmental sustainability.
If you have any questions about the event, please email producing@compassliveart.org.uk.