Melted for Love — Locating Lost Voices
Join us for an evening that moves between research, sonic fiction, and the act of listening as resistance. The programme begins with an artist talk with Emiddio Vasquez of Lower Levant Company, and Diana Policarpo, who will introduce the research behind Bugio Radio Station, focusing on echolocation and other techniques for tracing non-human sound. Together, they discuss how listening can reveal the impact of militarisation and colonial infrastructure on surrounding ecosystems.
The night continues with Every Day Things Disappear by Urok Shirhan, a live performance unfolding as a sonic fiction from the occupied land of ‘ABC’, where words, colours, feelings – and eventually futures – are systematically erased. Told through a fragmented first-person narrator, the work slips between satire and sorrow, tracing the quiet violence of censorship. Blending spoken word with archival murmurs and encrypted song fragments, it conjures a world where remembering becomes a subversive act. Every Day Things Disappear is both lament and code, auto-myth and resistance ritual. It asks how we listen when speech dissolves and what songs take shape in silence.
This programme is part of the Biennial exhibition Melted for Love at W139, where Lower Levant Company’s and Diana Policarpo’s works are on display.
Programme
Wednesday 25 February
18:00-20:00
