Leeds!Leeds!Leeds!

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Sitting in my student, back-to-back house in Beeston, Leeds in the early 80s, I experienced an extraordinary sonic phenomenon: 40,000 voices raised in a vast cheer burst into the sitting room, followed by urgent chanting and a massively disappointed "ohhh.." It was unexpected (did I even know there was a football ground nearby?) and chilling yet very moving. These voices, raw, in atavistic unison impinged on the mundane activities of my everyday life. This surreal incongruity of hearing but not seeing the source of so many voices erupting uninvited into my house occurred on many subsequent Saturdays and I came to quite enjoy the unsolicited mass companionship. The memory has stayed with me ever since.

In this volume, 9 women artists were invited to contribute an artists' statement about one work they had made recently and the ideas within it. The artists were: Maia Urstad, Tansy Spinks, Luz Maria Sanchez, Pamela Z, Ros Bandt, Camille Norment, Jodi Rose, Kaffe Matthews, and Katrinem. .
In this section, Maia Urstad discusses her new and permanent sound installation ‘Nullmeridanens Tillbakekomst/Return of the Zero Meridian’, at Kongsvinger Fortress in Oslo. This public commission responds to the history of the place and the marking of the former meridian in Norway.
Tansy Spinks discusses Leeds!Leeds! Leeds! A sound work which amplifies a memory – the cheering of football fans – but replaces this with fifteen songs sung by one female voice as a multitude of layered discordant voices. The work was exhibited at East Street Arts Gallery, Leeds. .
Luz Maria Sanchez her work Vis (un) necessary force.[V.(un) NF_**] is an installation using the sounds of shooting on the street in Mexico City recorded on mobile phones and part of the artist’s larger explorations of violence in Mexico. The sounds come from real shootings and the violence is echoed in the installation where the 74 mp3 files are available to play on portable sound devices shaped by guns. .
All 9 contributions are combined in one PDF, although they appear as 3 separate sections within the journal’s print pages.