“Nothing here does not hear you” is a site specific, sound installation created from research made into the space formerly known as the 1820 Settler’s Monument in Makhanda. The process began when a group of individuals were invited to take a walk through the building and its environs to talk about the situation. The guests included historians, cultural workers, political activists, and sangomas, as well as members of the building’s maintenance and technical staff.

All the interviewees spoke in different ways of blockages, barriers, clots, stuck places, and obstacles. The building, and the land in particular, was spoken of as an energy that needs to be listened and attended to: the Monument has to be rethought, opened up, and become many monuments.

The recorded interviews were shared with a writer who developed a series of texts that could, when spoken, work as blessings. These ideas form a manifesto of spiritual intent: an opening of channels, a putting to rest the uneasiness, a calling for creativity and wisdom, and a token of gratitude for lessons learnt and lessons to come. The text is vocalised in soft voices, reminiscent of lullabies, ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response), and mantra, and in whispers, referencing stage cues as well as the focused transmission of special knowledge. When broadcast in the space these voices might be thought of as working towards a subtle, sonic reorientation of the building.

The blessings are punctuated by 5 sets of sonic indexes summoning various metaphorical blockages so that they may be named and dispensed with.

The artwork is installed in the Bridge, an architectural folly in the building that offers a breathtaking perspective of Makhanda and the surrounding areas. The audio component is diffused through transducers attached to the windows of the room, turning the glass into speakers, and allowing for the sound to be linked with the view of the land.

This installation is dedicated to the memory of Joseph Maart who worked in the building and contributed to the project in a site reading. 

The work is live streamed below from “The Bridge” in the Monument Building looking out to the East over the city of Makhanda.

Research and interviews: Dr. Dominique Santos, James Webb
Invited site readers: Ayanda Kota, Brendon Wessels, Joseph Maart, Juanita Praeg, Prof. Julie Wells, Mbali Marais, Nicci Spalding, Nosipho Matini, Rev. Thebe Albert Shale, and Xolile “X” Madinda
Interview and location sound recordist: Kuhle Ngqezana
Writer: Louis Viljoen
Voices: Nombasa Maqoko, Dr. Hleze Kunju
Voice recording engineer: Elijah Madiba
Recording studio: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Installation team: Guy Nelson, Darren Wolhuter, Armand Steenkamp, Benjamin Muir-Mills.
Thanks to Rucera Seethal, Nicci Spalding, Dominique Santos, Louis Viljoen, and Lina Kinning.

Nothing here does not hear you

An extract from a recording of Qari Abdurrahman Sadien as part of "Prayer (Cape Town)."

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the UK.

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Qari Abdurrahman Sadien_Prayer (Cape Town)

A recorded voice poses questions to a Hikimawashi kappa travelling cloak.

The installation takes the form of the display of the particular object, e.g. an 19th century Japanese raincoat , and an audio speaker installed above where the audience would ideally be situated in relation to the object on exhibition. The audio speaker broadcasts the series of questions addressed to the object. Time is given between each question for the object to reply, and for the audience to consider their own responses to the questions and the situation.

The artwork proposes that each object is more than the sum of its parts and what it represents, and that each object would have had its own, unique set of experiences. The form of address seeks to honour the object and create a space for it to speak in its own way. The questions - and the audience’s projected answers - furthermore serve to reconsider and complicate the object, transforming the standard conditions of display, and opening up new interpretations and parallel histories and possibilities.

The artwork began in 2016 and has been realised in various locations with various objects. 

Voice: Sylvaine Strike
Research assistant: Amber Moir
Scenographic assistant: Valentin Rolovic for Galerie Imane Farès
English to French translations: Nathalie Bourgeois, Boris Atrux-Tallau
Cape Town studio engineer: Dave Langemann

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Collection: Kadist Foundation

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A Series Of Personal Questions Addressed To A Hikimawashi Travelling Cloak_French language examples

A Series Of Personal Questions Addressed To A Hikimawashi Travelling Cloak_English language version

A recording of monks of the Tasmanian Chinese Buddhist Academy of Australia as part of "Prayer (lutruwita / Tasmania)," curated by Brian Ritchie, produced by Kat Traill, and installed by Oren Gerassi for Mona Foma 2023.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in Australia, South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA. This version is the 11th in 23 years, and the first time the artwork has been presented in Australia; comprising 138 recordings made with 180 people in January and February 2023. A booklet of transcriptions and further contextual information supplied by participants is presented alongside the installation. 

The artwork is exhibited in the central gallery of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in nipaluna / Hobart until 9 March 2023.

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Tasmanian Chinese Buddhist Academy of Australia_Prayer (lutruwita / Tasmania)

Example of “A series of personal questions addressed to the River Rhine,” 2023. Please note that these are selected, highlighted excerpts of the audio, and the pauses between each question in the installations are longer.

A voice poses questions to the River Rhine.

For the Monheim Triennale, audio speakers have been placed along the riverbanks to broadcast questions addressed directly to the river. Each question lingers in the air with a pause of 12 seconds before the next question is asked.

The Rhine is the second longest river in Central Europe; a source of life in and on the water, and a natural border in the landscape. Affected by trade and settlement over centuries, the river has experienced countless histories, life cycles, and transformations. The Rhine was used as a pathway for Viking exploration, Roman expansion, the propagation of Lutheranism, and the terror of the Malleus Maleficarum. Today, the Rhine is a symbol; a troubled, romantic image; a political player; and a wounded entity that suffers from neglect as much as from human poisoning and industrial waste.

Themes connecting to, amongst others, the river’s timescale, vast ecosystems, memories, and the many myths created around it are explored in the questions. The artwork is ongoing and unfolding with the possibility of further questions being added later.

The Triennale runs in Monheim am Rhein from 3 June to 2 July. For more information, follow @monheimtriennale

The series began in 2016 and this particular version has its conceptual roots in 2017 while on a residency at @ateliermondialart in Basel.
Research was augmented in a writing workshop in March 2023 conducted with members of the Ulla Hahn Haus close to the river.

Curated by Frank Schulte & Kathrin Jentjens
Produced by Lukas Becker. Technical installation by Niklas Werani

English - German translations: Barbara Hess
Proofreader: Bettina Schultz
German voice: Yasmin Hankel
English voice: Victoria Davies
Studio engineer: Dave Langemann

153 questions
Bilingual duration: 01:27:03

Photograph by Niclas Weber

A series of personal questions addressed to the River Rhine_English language examples

A series of personal questions addressed to the River Rhine_German language examples

A voice poses questions to an 18th-century mirror.

In this ongoing series, started in 2016, the artist poses spoken questions to selected objects; in this instance an 18th century mirror. The installation takes the form of the presentation of the chosen object and an audio speaker installed above where the audience are situated situated in relation to the object on display.

A mirror is a place of composition, secret looks, confessions, and rehearsals. We see ourselves looking; our own reflection stares at us, a stranger that is always close by. Mirrors have played a great role in the creation of a social self in our civilization, and their production is connected with trade, wealth, and class. A mirror such as this one would have been a prized possession in the late 18th century and most probably placed in a significant room in a house. 

What might a mirror have witnessed over the course of its life? What are its feelings about what it has had to reflect? Through a series of questions that stir memories and probe details, the artist’s intervention addresses the mirror to develop a speculation on time, power, and desire.

The artwork debuted at Marres, Maastricht, in September 2023, on the group exhibition, “Goodbye to Love.”

English voice: Lesoko Seabe
Dutch voice: Guido Wevers

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A series of personal questions addressed to an 18th-century mirror, previous owner unknown

An excerpt from a series of recordings of a Sufi Dhikr performed by patients at the Drug Rehabilitation wing of the Sultan Bahu Centre in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, South Africa. The project is ongoing.

For more information on the Sultan Bahu Centre, the Rehab Centre, or to donate to this cause, please visit http://bahu.co.za/wp/drug-rehab/

Started by Shafiek Davids in 2005, the Sultan Bahu Centre is a non-profit organisation in the field of substance abuse – mainly heroin and methamphetamine (tik) – in both Mitchell’s Plain and Bonteheuwel. The centre operates as a drug treatment facility in lower socio-economic communities, offering a six-week intensive day programme with continual care thereafter. 

Sultan Bahu (1628 – 1691) was an Islamic scholar, poet and Sufi saint, founder of the Sawari Qadiri Sufi Order.

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Sultan Bahu Rehabilitation Centre_6

Knowing the ways:  In the time of the indrawn breath
   
An audio recording made inside the former-R1 nuclear reactor hall underneath Stockholm of an ensemble of singers performing five of the Virtues (Humility, Love, Fear of God, Mercy, and Hope) from Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum (1151). 
 
Mounted on scaffolding as if propping up the Liljevalchs building, the six speakers switch between recordings from sixteen microphones: documenting the ways in which the singers’ voices activate the subterranean architecture of Sweden’s first nuclear project. 

St. Hildegard von Bingen (Bermersheim vor der Höhe, 1098 - 1179) was a German religious leader, composer, and botanist. Ordo Virtutum is a sacred music drama originally composed for the nuns of Rupertsberg Abbey where St. Hildegard was the Abbess. 

Ensemble: Lina Kinning (Humility), Caroline Lundgren Brandberg (Love), Ebba Edberg di Paola (Fear of God), Karin Olin (Hope), Anna Lagercrantz (Mercy).

Date: 2024
Materials: Scaffolding, speakers, audio
Dimensions: Variable
Format: 6-channel audio
Duration: 00:09:04 
Language: Latin

Knowing The Ways: In The Time Of The Indrawn Breath

A series of personal questions addressed to a Viking-age sword

A voice poses questions to a Viking-age sword.

In this ongoing series the artist poses spoken questions to selected objects; in this instance a Viking-age sword unearthed from a cairn in Barkarby in 1931, and now part of the collection of Historiska Museet.

The installation takes the form of the presentation of the sword and an audio speaker installed above where the audience are situated in relation to the object on display.

Swords carried great personal meaning for their owners and, understandably, have become the inspiration for folklore and legend. What might the sword have done, or failed to do in its lifetime? What are its feelings about violence and the use of Viking culture in contemporary images? What might it think its purpose is today? Through a series of 150 questions that stir memories and probe details, the artist’s intervention addresses the sword, opening up themes of power, narrative, and history.

English voice: Brendon Daniels
Recorded at Creative Native, Cape Town

Date of series: 2016 | Date of this edition: 2024
Materials: Viking-age sword (iron, copper, silver), speaker, audio
Dimensions: 70 x 10.3cm (Sword)
Format: Monophonic audio
Duration: 01:21:04
Language: Swedish, English
Sword loaned from Historiska Museet.

Translations: Isabel Sunnerö, Lovisa Tunedal, Anna Palmqvist, Lina Kinning
Proofreading: Bettina Schultz, Lina Kinning, Anna Palmqvist

Research assistance: Dr. Sven Kalmring, Professor Neil Price, Professor Sandra Klopper, Anthea Buys, Linda Qviström, Hannah Lewis, Thobile Ndenze, and Jonathan Olsson.

QR code video designed by Hoick, Cape Town.All rights reserved.

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A Series Of Personal Questions Addressed To A Viking-age Sword English Excerpt

A series of personal questions addressed to a Viking-age sword

A voice poses questions to a Viking-age sword.

In this ongoing series the artist poses spoken questions to selected objects; in this instance a Viking-age sword unearthed from a cairn in Barkarby in 1931, and now part of the collection of Historiska Museet.

The installation takes the form of the presentation of the sword and an audio speaker installed above where the audience are situated in relation to the object on display.

Swords carried great personal meaning for their owners and, understandably, have become the inspiration for folklore and legend. What might the sword have done, or failed to do in its lifetime? What are its feelings about violence and the use of Viking culture in contemporary images? What might it think its purpose is today? Through a series of 150 questions that stir memories and probe details, the artist’s intervention addresses the sword, opening up themes of power, narrative, and history.

Swedish voice: Ann Petrén
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm

Date of series: 2016 | Date of this edition: 2024
Materials: Viking-age sword (iron, copper, silver), speaker, audio
Dimensions: 70 x 10.3cm (Sword)
Format: Monophonic audio
Duration: 01:21:04
Language: Swedish, English
Sword loaned from Historiska Museet.

Translations: Isabel Sunnerö, Lovisa Tunedal, Anna Palmqvist, Lina Kinning
Proofreading: Bettina Schultz, Lina Kinning, Anna Palmqvist

Research assistance: Dr. Sven Kalmring, Professor Neil Price, Professor Sandra Klopper, Anthea Buys, Linda Qviström, Hannah Lewis, Thobile Ndenze, and Jonathan Olsson.

QR code video designed by Hoick, Cape Town.All rights reserved. 

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A Series Of Personal Questions Addressed To A Viking - Age Sword Swedish Excerpt

A recording of Thuy Hoa Thiên Liên from the Truc Lam Tempel Vietnamesiska Buddhistiska Kulturföreningen as part of "Prayer (Malmö)" presented at Wanås Konst in 2015, curated by Elisabeth Millqvist, with production assistance by Albin Hillervik.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

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Thuy Hoa Thiên Liên, Song To Guanyin_Prayer (Malmö)

A recording of Father Mihai Razvan Novasovschi from the Romanian Orthodox Church as part of "Prayer (Birmingham)" presented at the Fierce Festival 2011, curated by Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison.

Started in 2000, Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

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Romanian Orthodox Church_Prayer (Birmingham)

A recording of Veronica Palgrave from the Shiloh Pentecostal Church as part of "Prayer (Birmingham)" presented at the Fierce Festival 2011, curated by Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison.

Started in 2000, Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

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Shiloh Pentecostal Church_Prayer (Birmingham)

A recording of Sri Gurvastaka by Jirakesha devi dasi, Kamala Priya, and Mandaleshvari devi dasi from ISKCON Sweden and Bhakti Yoga Society in Stockholm as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audience may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in that host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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Sri Gurvastaka_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Jaya Radhe Jaya Krishna by Mandaleshvari devi dasi from the Bhakti Yoga Society in Stockholm as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS. 

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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Jaya Radhe Jaya Krishna_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Phramaha Boonthin Taosiri, Phramaha Chimphli Phonmahakun, Phra Sakron Wattana, and Mattias Bärlund, from the Buddharam Temple, Värmdö, Stockholm, the first Thai Buddhist temple built in Scandinavia, as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS. The recording was done on Friday, the 14th of October 2016, a day after the passing of King Bhumibol the Great. 

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

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Värmdö Buddharam Temple_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of the Venerable Ru Hai of the Buddha’s Light International Association as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)," curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

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Venerable Ru Hai_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Mahsa Haei of the Swedish Bahá’í community as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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Mahsa Haei_Bahá’í Stockholm_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of the Mar Yousif Syrisk katolska kyrkas kör i Södertälje as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS. In this track the choir are performing the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic, and with the Syrian Orthodox melody.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.
Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

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blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Mar Yousif Syrisk Katolska Kyrkas Kör I Södertälje_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Marrakchi Abdelaziz performing the Adhan at Stockholms Moské as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Marrakchi Abdelaziz_Stockholms Moské_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Blessing Olarewaju Omogunloye from the Yoruba Union Stockholm as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Blessing Olarewaju Omogunloye_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of members of the Russian Orthodox Church in Copenhagen as part of "Prayer (København)" presented at the My World Images festival in 2010, and curated by Thomas Burø, Maiken Vibe Bauer, and Tobias Kirstein.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

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Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant's consent written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Russian Orthodox Church_Prayer (København)

This recording was made with the Greek Orthodox Choir that practice at the Saheti Chapel in Senderwood, and forms part of Prayer (Johannesburg) - a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. 

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work. 

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

http://www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

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Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb's written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Greek Orthodox Church choir_Prayer (Johannesburg)

A recording of Rev. Sungsim Lee, Ven. Jungkil Lee, Yejung Yun, and Rev. Insik Kim of Won Bul-Kyo as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Won Bul - Kyo_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of members of Saint James Episcopal Cathedral choir as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Saint James Episcopal Cathedral choir_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr. of the Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Rabbi Funnye, Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of Sri Viswanathan Kalyanasundaram, Sri Subhadracharyulu Srinivasula, Sri Hanumanth Prasad Paramkusam, and Sri Begur Nagendra Rao of the Sri Venkateswara Swami Balaji Temple as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Sri Venkateswara Swami Balaji_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of members of the Eckankar, Illinois Satsang Society performing the Hu chant as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Eckankar, Illinois Satsang Society_Prayer (Chicago)

Sultan Bahu Rehabilitation Centre_3

A recorded voice addresses questions to a silver Denarius minted in Rome in 70AD. In this ongoing series, the artist literally poses a series of questions to select objects/spaces as if they were able to respond. The installation takes the form of the display of the particular object, e.g. an antique Roman coin, and an audio speaker installed above where the audience would ideally be situated in relation to the object on exhibition. The audio speaker broadcasts the series of questions addressed to the object. Time is given between each question for the object to reply, and for the audience to consider their own responses to the questions and the situation. 

The artwork proposes that each object is more than the sum of its parts and what it represents, and that each object would have had its own, unique set of experiences. The form of address seeks to honour the object and create a space for it to speak in its own way. The questions - and the audience’s projected answers - furthermore serve to reconsider and complicate the object, transforming the standard conditions of display, and opening up new interpretations and parallel histories and possibilities.

The artwork began in 2016 and has been realised in various locations with various objects. For this edition, the artist used PayPal to purchase a two millennia old silver Denarius coin from eBay. It is plausible to think that this coin, minted in the year 70AD, would have been used for all manner of transactions; from buying bread to being used as a bribe, and being part of the empire’s taxation and usury systems. 

The questions were written specifically for this coin, translated into French by Julie Azémar, Bénédicte Delay, Boris Atrux-Tallau, and Line Ajan, and recorded bilingually by Sylvaine Strike. Recording was done by Kyle Leith and Dave Langemann. Thanks to Mia Thom for studio and production assistance; thanks to Samah Slim for installation assistance. Thanks to Lina Kinning. 

Note: The audio in this clip is an edited extract of a longer piece. The durations of "silence" between each question are longer in the installation.

Exhibited as part of “Choose The Universe,” James Webb’s second solo show at Galerie Imane Farès, 5 September - 26 October 2019.

Voice: Sylvaine Strike
Photo by Tadzio

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A series of personal questions addressed to a Roman coin (2019_French language version

A recording of members of the Chasewood Baptist Church, Nottingham, for "Prayer (Nottingham)" presented at the Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre in 2010.
 
Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb's written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Chasewood Baptist Church_Prayer (Nottingham)

A recorded voice addresses questions to 5 litres of Nigerian crude oil. In this ongoing series, the artist literally poses a series of questions to select objects as if they were able to respond. The installation takes the form of the display of the particular object, e.g. a glass cube containing Nigerian crude oil, and an audio speaker installed above where the audience would ideally be situated in relation to the object on exhibition. The audio speaker broadcasts the series of questions addressed to the object. Time is given between each question for the object to reply, and for the audience to consider their own responses to the questions and the situation.

The artwork proposes that each object is more than the sum of its parts and what it represents, and that each object would have had its own, unique set of experiences. The form of address seeks to honour the object and create a space for it to speak in its own way. The questions - and the audience’s projected answers - furthermore serve to reconsider and complicate the object, transforming the standard conditions of display, and opening up new interpretations and parallel histories and possibilities.

The artwork began in 2016 and has been realised in various locations with various objects. For this edition, the artist sourced Nigerian crude oil as the object of investigation. At some stage of the earth’s history this oil had many another forms and various other lives. Oil is, in many ways, the psyche of the planet. It has recently been brought to the earth’s surface for use in the world’s economy. The questions seek to expand on all these thoughts and ask the oil what it knows, how it has lived, and what it thinks of the world we are in today.

The questions were recorded by Brendon Daniels. Recording was done by Dave Langemann. Thanks to Hanien Conradie for sourcing the oil. Thanks to Aqua Concepts for the creation of the cube.

Note: The audio in this clip is an edited extract of a longer piece. The durations of "silence" between each question are longer in the installation.

Exhibited as part of “What fresh hell is this,” James Webb’s fifth solo show at blank projects, 19 March - 2 May 2020.

Voice: Brendon Daniels
Photo by Kyle Morland

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A Series Of Personal Questions Addressed To 5 Litres Of Nigerian Crude Oil

Sultan Bahu Rehabilitation Centre_1

James Webb is an artist, recognised for his site-specific interventions and installations. His practice often involves sound, found objects, and text, invoking references to literature, cinema, and the conceptualist traditions. By shifting objects, techniques, and forms beyond their original contexts and introducing them to different environments, Webb creates new spaces of tension. These spaces bind Webb’s background in religion, theatre, and advertising, offering poetic inquiries into the economies of belief and dynamics of communication in our contemporary world.

As Brandon LaBelle writes, “The works of James Webb circulate around a complex mixture of emotional and affective states; of longing and despair, of the ecstatic and of hopefulness, states of bodies and minds that move throughout his practice to raise questions of individuality and community, belonging and displacement, fragmentation and recuperation.” (Xenagogue, edited by Anthea Buys, published by the Hordaland Kunstsenter, 2015.)

Webb has had solo exhibitions at, amongst others, the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2018); SPACES, Cleveland, USA (2018); Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden (2018); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom (2016); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2015); CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain (2013); Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2012); and mac, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2010).

Major group exhibitions include the 13th Biennial of Dakar (2018), 4th Prospect Triennial of New Orleans (2017), Documenta 14 (2017), 13th Biennial of Sharjah (2017), 12th Bienal de la Habana (2015), 55th Biennale di Venezia (2013), 3rd Marrakech Biennale (2009), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2009), and the 8th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (2007). Other notable group shows include  those at spaces such as Wanås Konst and Historiska, Sweden; MAXXI Roma, Italy; Darat al Funun, Jordan; Théâtre Graslin, France; and the Tate Modern, London. 

Webb’s projects have been the subject of the two monographs, “. . .” (blank projects, 2020), and “Xenagogue” (Hordaland Kunstsenter, 2015). 

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