Light Sown in Memoriam
- Dates and Opening times
Fri 5 Jun - Sun 21 Jun
- Venue
Glasgow Necropolis, Castle Street, G4 0UZ
Please note the venue is off-site and outdoors. Public accessible toilets can be found nearby Glasgow Necropolis at St Mungo Museum. Please visit their website for opening hours.
- Participants
- Bex Šik Natasha Thembiso Ruwona Adam McNeil
- Presented by
Listen Gallery
- Supported by
Listen Gallery only survives because of the community who support it and the ancestors that power it. Thank you to all the community and ancestors, past and present. Additionally supported by Glasgow International with funds from the Scottish Government's Festival EXPO Fund.
- Accessiblity
Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors
Please note the venue is off-site and outdoors. Public accessible toilets can be found nearby at St Mungo Museum, please visit their website for opening hours.
Light Sown in Memoriam is an experimental self-guided walking and listening experience set within the Glasgow Necropolis. Curated by Listen Gallery, the project brings together three artists, Bex Šik, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, and Adam McNeil, to create site-responsive sound works shaped by sonic practice and somatic awareness.
Accessed digitally and encountered on foot, the triptych audio work invites audiences to move through the Necropolis as both landscape and living archive. Hidden narratives, religious iconography, colonial extraction, slavery, and the accumulation of wealth that underpinned the city’s expansion resonate within the stone, soil, and pathways of the site.
Through their distinct practices, the artists invite listeners to reflect on how these histories are held and felt within their own bodies, approaching the Necropolis as walking sociology, topography, and psychogeography. The sound journey encourages re-listening to a historical site whose legacies remain active, unfolding through memory, power, and place.
This project is presented by Listen Gallery, a Glasgow-based organisation and space dedicated to sound-led and listening-based practices, supporting artists and audiences to explore sound as a tool for critical inquiry, collective reflection, and embodied experience.
The audio tour is accessed on site via QR code using your own mobile device with mobile data.
Visitors are encouraged to bring their own headphones, as only a limited number will be available to hire.
For more information on access, equipment hire and location of the information desk, please visit listengallery.co.uk