James Hazel: Underscoring the Commons
Presented by Central Coast Council
Underscoring the Commons is a project by James Hazel, who uses sound to explore the idea of the shared ‘commons' - the relationship between communities and the social/physical environments that are integral for sustaining lives and livelihoods.
Through each iteration of Underscoring the Commons, Hazel works with communities to construct a musical-score of the geographic and social ecologies of sites with complex working-class histories.
In the creation of UTC: 33.4267° S, 151.3417° E (the coordinates of Gosford), Hazel will conduct recordings of soundscapes, community music ensembles, and interviews with residents. This ever-expanding, living, and breathing archive will form a listening experience available on looped broadcast in Gosford Regional Gallery, where Hazel will invite community input through QR codes, to be woven into the tapestry of the score.
James Hazel is an artist, writer, and researcher who works across video, text and extended score practices. Hazel uses sound, and (re)performance to prompt us to explore what it means to live, love, and listen through socio-economic precarity.
Image: James Hazel Underscoring the Commons (detail), 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Sat, 5th November '22 to Sun, 29th January
Central Coast Council
The local governing body for the Central Coast region in New South Wales, Australia.
Gosford Regional Gallery
Located on the shores of Caroline Bay in East Gosford, the Gosford Regional Gallery is one of the Central Coast's leading tourist attractions. It provides an important cultural and educational resource for the community as well as a one of the region's great family attractions.
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