About the Project

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Chorus of Contact explores the complexity of our ‘contact zones’ - the moments of encounter where cultures converge and collide. Responding to London as an urban contact zone, this project navigates the layers of cultural exchange, incessant industrialisation, and societal transformation that are symptomatic of an ever-expanding, transnational condition.

Through sound recordings and graphic scores, artist Pheobe riley Law situates the concept of the contact zone in Canary Wharf - a site symbolic of historical and contemporary intercultural encounter. Phoebe’s recordings are amplified within an experiential installation developed in collaboration with artist Abbas Zahedi. A layered soundscape encourages audiences to listen collectively, whilst construction hoardings and bill posters evoke the eeriness of transitory space. The work encourages alternative ways of navigating contact zones through sound, acknowledging both the harmonies and dissonances in our relational environments.

Engaging with Édouard Glissant’s concept of the Archipelago, this project identifies with his poetic yet tangible definition as ‘spaces of relation where difference and interdependence coexist.’ Through this analytical framework, difference is acknowledged, established and, at times, left untranslated. Our curatorial methodology integrates opacities and unknowns as a means of building a counter-hegemonic practice - learning to accommodate the fluctuations and idiosyncrasies of our transnational world




Installation view