O'Keeffe’s latest exhibition Spaces of Sound and Radio Spaces explores the sonification of memories. The work stems from a research PhD, which examined, in part, how the soundscape of the 1950s and 1960s, including music and the radio, played a significant role in shaping Dublin teenagers’ social lives, as well as their experience of urban space. Her current practice examines the natural and mediated construction of urban soundscapes both as an art practice and as an object of social theory. Previous works deal with sound design and representations of sound as physical presences within architectural and exterior spaces as well as ‘historical spaces’ preserved through the radio and its early use. All these sonic investigations have evolved to include imagined spaces, the sonic spaces of communities, as well as environmental ‘soundscapes’ shaped by top down approaches to urban design.
Linda O'Keeffe
O'Keeffe is a lecturer in sound at Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Art. She has several papers and book chapters published and due for release in the fields of sound studies, and is editor of the Interference Journal of sound studies as well as vice president of the Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association. She is currently developing a project with Dr. Alan Marsden, which explores how designs of technology facilitate older people's engagement with sound and to investigate what that practice and its products say about meaning-formation through sound on the part of older people. She has exhibited internationally since 2003 exhibiting, performing and designing sound for various commission led projects. She will be releasing an album next year with the composer Tony Doyle on spatialisation and sonified memories with Farpoint Recordings, her third album. More info: www.lindaokeeffe.com.
Curated by Seán O'Reilly
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