Everything is Different, Nothing has Changed
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Everything is Different, Nothing has Changed
Exhibition, 15 August - 23 November 2023
Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, London E1
This exhibition of sound art is inspired by the amazing collections of oral history and archival audio held at Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives. Dating back to 1962 and held on fragile cassettes and open reel audiotape, these recordings offer tantalising fragments of the sonic past. For historians, they are especially valuable as intimate first-person accounts of daily lives. Sound artists Alastair Levy, Emily Peasgood and Syma Tariq use archival audio to offer new interpretations of Tower Hamlets’ past, with particular focus on the experiences of Jewish and Bengali/Bangladeshi migrants living there during the twentieth century. Recurring themes including home, memory, dislocation, and protest resonate across their work.
Contact name:
Katy Pettit