Palimpsests & Epithets, a newly commissioned body of work by Shamica Ruddock.

Palimpsests & Epithets draws upon the phenomenon of Dub, both as a musical genre and as materiality. Shamica Ruddock’s sound piece revolves around the notion of the palimpsest—remnants of the old imbued with the new. The work also expands ideas of sonic hauntology, repetition, non-linear temporalities and the metaphysics of presence.

The exhibition continues until 27 July, with a break between 4–13 July.

Shamica Ruddock is a British artist often found working between sound, moving image and musical performances. Her current research concerns sound cultures and Black sonic modalities. Approaching sound as a site for knowledge production, she considers the ways Afro-diasporas emerge through sound. She is particularly interested in how Black technosonic production functions as a form of narrativising and worldmaking.

Currently, Shamica Ruddock has provided a soundscape to the post-national digital pavilion Unseen Guests, arranged by Iniva in tandem with John Akomfrah’s solo exhibition at the British Pavilion in this year’s Venice Biennale. https://unseen-guests.net/

Selected presentations include the Barbican Centre (UK) and Tate Britain (UK). Residencies include Amant Foundation (US), Black Cultural Archives (UK) and QO2 (BE). In 2021 Shamica was a British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow researching Maroon sound cultures.

The exhibition is supported by Region Skåne