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October 2026 update

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October 2026 saw me perform in both Paris and London, the latter being a rare occurrence for me. In London I performed as part of the first Re:cite series of events curated by Mengting Zhou, and in Paris the event was co-organised by π-node and Le Non Jazz, hosted in the auditorium of La Générale, where I have had a few residencies.

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In September I was kindly invited by old friend Sung Baeg to exhibit at OpenARTs Space MERGE? I installed a new version of Deconstructed Radios, featuring 3 radios from the project with Konnekt from February with 3 radios sourced in Busan.

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From mid-June until the end of August I was one of many artists-in-residence at AiR Koganecho in Yokohama, Japan, where I developed a new project with donations of unwanted electrical consumer products for the Koganecho Bazaar exhibition in September 2026, and also began new collaborations with Suzuki Elico and Takamitsu Ohta.​

I am extremely honoured and grateful for support from Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for the my participation, as well nominal Koen support from British Council Japan.

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The donations I received to make new 'Deconstructed' works were strangely mainly televisions and radios, which you can see by clicking this link: Koganecho.​

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February was a busy month beginning with a further showing of "Made to Malfunction" (2018) as part of the Audioblast Festival in Nantes, France, plus a performance of new radio piece "Channelling Shortwave" using transmission recordings from my residency at GMEA, Albi, France in November 2025.

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This was closely followed by a commission to make a new project for Konnekt in Geneva, Switzerland for their event "Broadcasting - Who's listening?". I took the Deconstructed Radio idea from Estonia last year further by dismantling and adapting a collection of analogue radios to resemble exploded diagrams that used to feature in instruction manuals.

​March - presenting Deconstructed Radios and also "Channelling Shortwave" at DIVFUSE, London, UK - a rare thing these days to work in UK...

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April - a week long residency back at La Générale in Paris, France to initiate a collaboration with the amazing Marc Baron.

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May - a residency at Interface Inagh in Ireland, where I will develop a new project called Channelling Location that pipes environmental sound through motor devices to create ephemeral interventions in a location, plus a concert in Dublin and later in Cork and Sligo alongside Phil Maguire.

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