Goldsmiths CCA is excited to announce a performance by Freya Dooley, who has been commissioned to respond to Virginia Overton’s current exhibition, Animal Magnetism. For this sprawling sound-based performance, Dooley will work with and against Overton’s architectural and sculptural works in the basement of the CCA building.

Dooley’s layered practice incorporates writing, sound, performance and moving image to explore forms of synchronisation and discord between voices, structures and bodies. The wider themes in her work relate to precarious states, social connection, and tensions between personal and collective experiences. Often rooted in close-range observations and intimate environments, her layered soundtracks and meandering fictional narratives expand outwards in scale, navigating their way through divergent subjects.

This live performance commission at CCA will encompass spoken text and musical composition. Dooley will be working with manipulations of live and recorded voice, field recordings and fragmented samples to respond to the surfaces, substances and textures of the exhibition, elaborating on broader themes of visibility, use, time and effort. Drawing parallels in her own process with Overton’s implementation of raw, reused and reimagined materials within institutional contexts, Dooley will be using interpretations and anecdotes gathered from some of Overton’s pieces as catalysts, ventriloquising invisible characters indicated or imagined in the works.

This event took place on 24 Jul 2022.

Co-curated by Sasha Shevchenko and Christy O’Beirne.

BIOGRAPHY

Freya Dooley is an artist based in Cardiff. Recent work has manifested as moving image, sound installations, radio broadcasts, musical experiments, performed monologues, publications and listening events. She also works with other artists, researchers and musicians, including Cinzia Mutigli, with whom she also shares an ongoing collaborative practice.

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