aural conjuring
Exhibited as part of 'Walls in Online PLaces'
Performed live at 'Inside Job' Tate Modern, 2022
Aural Conjuring was created in response to the COVID-19 lockdown of London in April 2020. The work is a listening ritual, an attempt to listen towards what I am missing, what I fear, what I hope for. The performance approaches listening as an act of reaching outside of yourself, connecting, longing, and remaining open in a time of isolation.
The performance consists of me kneeling on the floor, creating a circle of sound equipment - speakers, headphones wires – around myself. I blindfold myself, and randomly draw three cards from a Tarot card deck. I listen to each card (holding it to my ear). I then record thoughts, sounds and feelings into a notebook. Each performance has a different title, which determines what I am listening towards.
aural conjuring - resistance
![Three tarot cards on a wooden floor](https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/24/3/3/243378/18/2/8/18283551/360x480.jpg?1588607027)
Knight of Swords - the trickster, volatile and changeable
Knight of Cups - truth, beauty and love
Queen of Pentcles - practical help
![Handwriting in notebook, mostly illegible](https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/24/3/3/243378/18/2/8/18283552/360x480.jpg?1588606985)
![Handwriting in notebook, mostly illegible](https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/24/3/3/243378/18/2/8/18283553/360x480.jpg?1588606888)
hard-necessity-fear-hope-resist-stay-positive-better world-hope-fight-hope
aural conjuring - alternate futures
10 of Cups - plenty of love is available to be offered and recieved; gratitude
4 of Pentacles - nothing ventured, nothing gained
9 of Pentacles - material benefits (through hard work) are promised and appreciated
![Small recorder at top of picture, 3 tarot cards displayed on a wooden floor](https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/24/3/3/243378/18/2/6/18263458/360x480.jpg?1588071902)
![Righthabd side page of notebook with handwriting](https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/24/3/3/243378/18/2/6/18263464/360x480.jpg?1588071957)
kindness-resistance-change-fear-different
aural conjuring- missing you
![Three tarot cards on stone garden stones](https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/24/3/3/243378/18/2/3/18238673/360x480.jpg?1587382940)
8 of Wands - creativity, regeneration and new activity
4 of Pentacles - anxiety, fear the freedom of emotions will result in loss or hurt
The World - success, harmony and achievement
![Notebook page with pen resting on it](https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/24/3/3/243378/18/2/3/18238683/269x268.jpg?1676921271)
![Notebook page with handwriting](https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/24/3/3/243378/18/2/3/18238687/333x404.jpg?1587383103)
scratching sound - helplessness - small - longing - fear - longing - hope - fear