Unearthed features Yorkshire-based artists who were selected through YSWN’s Rewired project open callout to create new electronic work for performance or installation. From the intimate to the expansive, each piece here invites us to perceive and reflect upon our world at a heightened level.

The performances will commence at 8pm sharp. Please arrive from 7pm to allow for time to view the installations.

Performances (Phipps Hall, second floor, Richard Steinitz Building)

Mary Stark
Mary will create a new expanded cinema performance featuring pattering rhythms, delicate melodies, mechanical noise and striking analogue projections. She will combine recent experiments with a music box and a Jacquard weaving pattern, with ongoing investigation into producing moving images and optical sound on 16mm film from fabric and machine stitch.

Ryoko Akama: under our sun
under our sun will be a live sound performance exploring sonic instability as a metaphor for environmental fragility under climate crisis. Through electronics and real-time processing, noise, silence and failure will become compositional elements.

Plus special guest to be announced.

Installations (Rooms RSG/04 & RSG/05, ground floor, Richard Steinitz Building: also available to view during the day on Thu 4 & Fri 5 June)

Naomi Hart: Save Progress?
Save Progress? is a computer game offering a dedicated space for people to explore how they may be feeling, moment to moment, in relation to the climate crisis. The game will aim to give the player a supportive and affirming experience with which to inquire into their own emotions, while providing a means of feeling connected to others who are doing the very same.

Anna Ross: my kitchen
An interactive and immersive installation based around a kitchen, with recordings strung together into an eclectic piece based around sensory overload.

In 1970, Mohammed Ayub founded Oriental Star Agencies in Balsall Heath — a record shop that grew into one of the most influential cultural hubs in the South Asian diaspora. When the shop closed Trueform Projects salvaged much of its vinyl collection and ephemera, preserving an extraordinary archive of memory, migration, and music.

This event in collaboration with Trueform Projects brings together a series of immersive musical responses to the archive, rethinking its legacy alongside visuals by Trueform director Faisal Hussain. Creation supported by the University’s ASPIRE, QR, and PR funds.