Locus of Voices

In a time of escalating planetary crisis, Locus of Voices offers a vision for resilience and renewal — calls to move with resonant systems that create ecological abundance. 

This group exhibition embodies the perspective that unity is not uniformity, as with biodiversity, it flourishes through multiplicity. It asks us: how does interconnectedness speak?

The constellation of featured artists creates tactile and temporal encounters with materiality, illuminating biospheric rhythms through installation, sculpture, dance, painting, music, film, and demonstrations of stewardship. Their sensory, relational practices invite us to heighten our awareness of our responsibilities within the living cosmos.

Locus of Voices embraces immediacy and impermanence as generative actions, vibrational exchanges that sustain environmental bodies. This extends into a deeper inquiry of reciprocity: how might our movements and correspondences with the elements cultivate ecological awareness — akin to a chorus of relationships, grounded in our shared ecology?

Engaged in this dialogue are artists: Milford Graves /Jake Meginsky,Emmanuel Awuni, Naima Nefertari / Cõvco E. Kikaya, Kalpana Arias, Phoebe Collings-James, Anonymous Monastic, SERAFINE1369, Divine Southgate-Smith, Rosalind Nashashibi, and Raven Chacon.

This exhibition engages somatic disciplines that invoke the wisdom of ancestral bodies; animistic philosophies that recognise sentience within matter, collapsing the divide between subject and object; experiential abstraction, where compassion arises through perception and felt experience; and spiritual neuroaesthetics, which explore how aesthetic experiences activate the nervous system, initiating resonance across emotional, cognitive, and sensory dimensions, awakening memory and intuition.

Acknowledging histories of desensitisation and disconnection, LOCUS OF VOICES transmits practices of listening and care, shaped by relational, reciprocal, and intersectional ways of being. This gathering speaks to ecological consciousness as both a cultural and spiritual imperative — a call to attune to and nurture the worlds we inhabit. 

Curated by Nissa Nishikawa.