In this second open studio session for Jane McCabe’s residency at Fanshaw Projects, the work is offered as a site for sonic field and song from artists Steven McInerney and Faissal El Malak, with the intention of exploring mortality as an endeavor of collective humanity. 

Any consideration of our shared mortality must find a strengthened solidarity with the Palestinians resisting genocide. Accordingly, this evening will serve as a sound-led fundraiser. The programme includes a seated sound bath from artist and filmmaker Steven McInerney, followed by a vocal performance by multidisciplinary artist Faissal El-Malak. Together, these sonic offerings seek to hold grief, resistance, and care in vibration. 

Tickets are offered on a pay-what-you-can basis, with all donations going directly to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). As a small gesture of thanks, the highest donation received will be gifted an original artwork by Jane McCabe, produced during her studio residency at Fanshaw Projects.

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Steven McInerney (b. Melbourne, 1983) is an artist living in London, combining moving image and immersive sound to create expanded forms of cinema, live performances, and installations. As a trained gong practitioner, McInerney guides sonic meditations for individuals and groups working intuitively with psychoacoustics for healing, transformation, and altered perception. Their cinematic work draws upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Live performances utilise real-time feedback systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, speculative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction. McInerney is the founder of Psyché Tropes, an interdisciplinary platform for audiovisual research, events, and releases, with a monthly radio programme on Resonance 104.4 FM.

Jane McCabe earned her BA in Studio Art and Architecture from Middlebury College 2015 before going into completing her MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University (2023). McCabe currently lives and works in London, UK.

McCabe is a conceptual artist making photo objects, sculpture, and video projections, concerning the compulsion to record in relation to mortality. Her material investigations constitute abstracted indexes of experiential time. In her ongoing series, cyanotype photograms on silk of her father’s ashes are sensitised at night and printed in daylight. This active light-tracing demands a methodology which is both intuitive and practical. The act of scattering is one of collaboration of the hand wind and silk, where the climatic conditions determine both the formation of ash, and the deep blue time of the exposure. Across this series, repetition becomes habit becomes ritual.