Cross Circuits with John Shiga

Free admission to The Power Plant’s gallery and public programmes.

Registration opens 5 weeks before the event.

You are invited to this season’s Cross Circuits with John Shiga, Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University, who will respond to Zadie Xa’s Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything, an exhibition created in collaboration with long-term collaborator Benito Mayor Vallejo, through his research on sound, oceans, and environmental sensing.

Shiga’s research and creative practice explore the politics of underwater sound and how ocean environments have been listened to, interpreted, and represented through scientific and environmental practices. Drawing on this work, Shiga will consider the role of sound and listening in Xa and Mayor Vallejo’s immersive exhibition, exploring connections between marine ecology, technology, environment, and our relationship to the underwater world.