Bridget Chappell
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Utopia is much easier to achieve when you stop worrying about it temporally. When it's just something you can kind of, like, reach out and grab for a second, except that, yeah, it needs to pass…watch for the next moment when you can grab it again.
In the wake of a COVID-cancelled exhibition, artist and organiser Bridget Chappell appeared in Liquid Architecture’s podcast to talk about their work, which explores sonic phase cancellation of police sirens and long-range acoustic devices (aka LRADs: acoustic weapons increasingly used in crowd control). They talk about what creating 'active silence' can mean in an activist context, and are candid about its utopian potential and significant risks and limitations.