The Walking Cure

Seven pairs of geolocated stories by NG Bristow, set between the British Museum and Smithfield Market. Available as a chapbook (pub Sampson Low).

[sense]prompting :: on accidental urban encounters ismini gatou, 2025 [sense]prompting unfolds as a process of attentive sensing, through the exploration of ‘overhearing’ as a form of care and presence, and as a way of attuning to the sociopolitical, material, and more-than-human agents that shape the city-nature assemblage. What do we hear and where? How do we hear (do we hear?) silence, or through silence? Whose voices inhabit the streets we pass through, and what infrastructures, vibrations, and non-human murmurs lie beneath our feet? Can hearing be another form of listening? Developed from a distance, the work is conceived as a research–relational–imaginative procedure of a public space in which the artist is not physically present, yet which is encountered as a process, through the resonances of the spaces she imagines and virtually visits (via Google Maps and online material), as well as of the spaces she inhabits daily; the dense, multicultural neighbourhoods of central Athens. The sensorial textures of these two urban sites, Athens and London, echo and contrast, revealing their differing rhythms, economies, and entanglements. The artwork unfolds through two interrelated forms. ~ a (sense)prompter loop, positioned by the gallery window, inviting both the exhibition visitors and passersby to attend to their own accidental over-hearings and to possibly contribute short field or vocal recordings. These fragments gradually form a collective archive of the area’s public-private sensorial and affective encounters. ~ a (walk)attuning piece extends this gesture beyond the gallery space, weaving voices and urban textures from both cities into an evolving, situated experience. [sense]prompting reimagines the practice of accidental, sensory encountering as a different way of inhabiting, relating, and co-producing the urban, in process. ----------------------------------- Processing Process ~ No EnD In Site Concept and research by Korina Pavlidou · Curated in collaboration with Raisa Desypri · Produced by ASTRO Open: 12 December 2025 – 17 January 2026 Hypha Studios Gallery 3 / No. 1 Poultry, London EC2R 8EN Processing Process ~ No EnD In Site brings together a transdisciplinary group of artists exploring relationality, transformation, and the dynamics of process at the intersection of social research, the life sciences, and biotechnology. Conceived and developed from the research of Korina Pavlidou and articulated through her framing of Process-Oriented Ontology, the show is curated in collaboration with Raisa Desypri and produced by ASTRO. The exhibition features twelve international artists (in alphabetical order): Grayson Earle (@prismspecs); Sasha Engelmann (@sasha_intheair); Jonn Gale (@balkanjonn); Ismini Gatou (@ismini_gatou); Klio Maniati (@kokomania); Katerina Markoulaki (@cath_ki); Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (@picpoet); Peter Polak (@sicknessinternational); Luiza Prado (@luizap); Xristina Sarli (@xristinasarli); Dan Venn (@dan.venn) and Lizzy Yarwood (@zil_doorway). For more info visit this link: https://hyphastudios.com/raisa-desypri-2/

Can I Ask You a Question? is a sound piece and experiential walk that uses sound as a vehicle to investigate the tensions currently existing along the Regent’s Canal at Kings Cross. Between 1820 and 1960, the canal's primary function was trade, transporting timber, coal and building materials from King's Cross to the major industrial cities of northern England. More recently, due to population growth, housing development, and industrial activities the canal’s usage has changed from a transport route to a promenade. Presently, it is intended to be a place of recreation and relaxation for human inhabitants as well as an ecosystem for birds, insects and amphibians. However, this new usage of Regent’s Canal has led to a decline in the canal's water quality, air, and noise pollution. Interested in exploring the repercussions of these changes, Red Group 3 (RG3) utilized a socio-political lens to study and document human and non-human interactions, and create a sound piece that encompassed the daily activities happening on the canal. By deploying methodologies that included interviewing current residents, examining perspectives of the canal from the surrounding area, and inspecting the environment’s ecology, the group was able to gain a better understanding of the forced agreements the canal’s visitors and inhabitants must adhere to. Through this process, RG3 was able to uncover the realities that exist in this human-made waterway: Concerns of safety and excitement around a growing commercial area were consistent among interviewees; visible pollution and a large bird populations seemingly have an undisturbed coexistence; and the ever-present sounds of the surrounding city remind us that the canal is part of a larger ecosystem many of us are incapable of changing, while also being complicit in its functionality. These discoveries leave us with complex questions such as: with the existence of such contradictions, can the canal be considered a place for coexistence or are these human and non-human interactions artificial and imposed by humans onto animals and their ecosystem? For the humans living on the canal, is their perspective driven by a yearning for economic opportunities and a safe place they can return to for safe dwelling? And what is the role of a visitor that engages with spaces such as Regent’s Canal? These constant questions bring tension to even the most peaceful moments. RG3’s Can I Ask You a Question? captures the sounds representing these simultaneous happenings and encourages listeners to contemplate their overt and covert existence.

UAL Collaborative Sound Project: Red Group (Marc) Making the invisible visible and uncovering the hidden history of Kings Cross through its sounds