issue 002

Issue 002 BRINGS TOGETHER SPOKEN EXCERPTS from Josephine Mead’s upcoming poetic novel titled ‘I Sea See / I Her Hear’ AND SOUND DESIGN FROM GILLIAN LEVER. The novel reflects on queer love using the sea and the writing of ancient poet Sappho as metaphorical matter. Gillian Lever’s accompanying sonic landscape situateS an embodied listener WITHin a SENSORY response to THIS WRITTEN WORK.

DURATION: 12:12. headphones encouraged.

Gillian Lever is a sound artist and composer whose interests include the relationship between sound and space, auditory perception of spatial cues, and how listeners describe their sonic experiences. She makes meticulously constructed works which engage with personal histories and resonate with the embodied listener. Gillian completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sound) at RMIT University, Melbourne, in 2017, and is a founding member of Starlings Spatial Sound Collective. She is currently undertaking a Master of Design by Research degree in spatial sound at the School of Design, RMIT. Gillian composed the live, surround sound score for Watson’s critically-acclaimed Moosehead-award winning show Go To Hell (2017), and for their Jhonsey award winning show Once Were Planets (2013). She has also composed sound for works by choreographers Amanda Lever (Dasein, 2013; Hypnagogia, 2015), Anna Seymour (Distraction Society, 2016; remount 2017) and Chelsea Byrne (Human Sized Box, 2015).Gillian held a solo exhibition at Montsalvat, Sustain and release, in January 2019, and performed at the Tilde New Music Festival 2019.

Josephine Mead is a visual-artist, writer and curator based on Wurundjeri woi wurrung Country (Australia). She works through photography, sculpture, installation and writing to explore personal notions of support. She has exhibited and been published widely and has undertaken residency programs in regional Victoria, Mexico, Portugal, Turkey, Greece and Germany. She co-founded Co- Publishing alongside Christine McFetridge and was a founding Artistic Director of MILK Gallery. In 2022 she participated in the Writing in the Expanded Field program through the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). She was the Communication & Program Coordinator at Res Artis: worldwide network of arts residencies from 2021 – 2024. She is currently the Community Coordinator at Blindside Gallery and is a regular contributor for Art Guide.