Listen Gallery is honoured to present a new experimental audio tour, Light Sown in Memoriam, set within Glasgow Necropolis. The project brings together three new sound works by artists Bex Šik, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, and Adam McNeil.
Each artist presents a site-responsive work shaped by sonic practice and somatic awareness. Accessed digitally and encountered on foot, the triptych audio work invites audiences to move through and listen to the Necropolis as both landscape and living archive. Histories of religious iconography, colonial extraction, slavery, and the accumulation of wealth that underpinned the city’s expansion resonate within the stone, soil, and pathways of the site. The sound journey encourages re-listening to a historical site whose legacies remain active, unfolding through memory, power, and place.
This project is presented by Listen Gallery, a Glasgow-based organisation dedicated to sound art and listening-led practices.
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Listen Gallery gives thanks to the ancestors of this place, to the artists and their extended networks of support.
With thanks to:the Friends of Glasgow Necropolis, especially Annette, whose words guide this work:
“You don’t go to the Necropolis, she comes to you”
Glasgow International team
Cheryl and Carlton Studios
Imagesystem Design & Print
The Listen Gallery community, who continue to hold and sustain this work
We welcome your feedback: Listengallery@outlook.com
