Exhibition: Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

Exhibition: Thurs 19 Nov to Sun 22 Nov, 11:00 – 16:00

Daniel Thomas Freeman | Gavriel Goodman | Hypha | Thomas Kitchman | Kehan Liu | Ashling McCann | Melissa McLean | Eliza Outlaw | Songyuan Shi | Yixuan Qin | Yilin Zhu

As technological systems become ever more pervasive and invisible, eleven graduating sound artists question how we live in relation to, and in tension with, technology. Their works make audible connections that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Daniel Thomas Freeman uses flint, one of our earliest technologies, to invite new practices of land listening. Yilin Zhu turns to geological listening to trace a flood that has passed. Through recording and playback, Kehan Liu explores how sound shapes our connection to place, whilst Yixuan Qin considers how recording mediates our relationship with our own voice.

Ashling McCann invites us to imagine an urban environment where technologies make movement audible. Gavriel Goodman shows how transmission attempts to define territory, whilst Thomas Kitchman constructs a speculative machine for emitting peripheral radio noise.

Stretching the boundaries of media archaeology, Eliza Outlaw examines relationships with technology through feminist methodologies. Moving from hardware to software, Melissa McLean draws parallels between code and embroidery to explore folk histories, whilst Hypha brings ancient divination practices into the process of coding.

In her warnings about the ultimate destination of AI, writer Arundhati Roy* shows how tech oligarchs are ‘never shy about saying the quiet part out loud’; their rhetoric reveals ambitions of total domination. Through acts of listening, making and reimagining technology, these artists assert their own agency, proposing alternative devices, frameworks and cosmologies. Together, their works invite us to hear technology differently, and to consider how its dominant narratives might be challenged.

*Roy, A. (2026) ‘Apocalypse Now and Then’ in The Equator [online magazine]. Available at: https://www.equator.org/articles/arundhati-roy-artificial-intelligence 

Curator: Hannah Kemp-Welch 

Course leader: Tom Tlalim

Specialist technicians: Rory Salter & Rosie Spencer 

Project supervisors: Kate Carr, Louise Gray, Irene Revell, Mark Peter Wright, David Mollin, Thomas Gardner.

The research symposium will take place at Dilston Gallery on Saturday 21 Nov, 13.00 – 15:00, booking link coming shortly.

The opening and performance programme will take place on Thurs 19 Nov, 14:00 – 16:00, booking link coming shortly.

A workshop led by Eliza Outlaw will take place on Sunday 22 Nov, 13:00 – 15:00. Booking essential: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sounding-electronics-workshop-tickets-2002707634446

LCC Postgraduate Shows 2026

This exhibition is part of the LCC Postgraduate Shows 2026

Accessibility and directions

Please visit the Southwark Park Galleries website for full accessibility information about this venue.

Important filming and photography notice

Please note that filming and photography may be taking place at this event. Both bigger crowds, smaller groups and individuals may be captured on camera. All imagery and footage may at some point be published on the College websites, social media channels, and in print.

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