Based around the archive at Vancouver’s VIVO Media Arts Centre, this 2015 sound piece conceives of oral histories and soundscapes as a means to reflect upon art production and processes. Inspired by an early artwork by Mona Hatoum, “Networks, Distance, So Much I Want to Say” addresses the egalitarian hopes of early artist networks, the difficulties of representation, and reflects on modern state and corporate surveillance through networked technologies.

Thank you: Hank Bull, Sara Diamond, Elisa Ferrari, Nikolai Gauer, Megan Hepburn, Alex Khramov, Alex Muir, Anahita Jamali Rad, Jayce Salloum, Robin Simpson, Nicole Kelly Westman, Jayne Wilkinson.

The launch and listening party for “Networks, Distance, So Much I Want to Say” was accompanied by an artist talk and demonstration of early communications technology by Hank Bull and Alex Muir. Photo documentation by Alisha Weng.