Thu. 04 Jun 2026
Unearthed
Huddersfield
Unearthed features Yorkshire-based artists who were selected through YSWN’s Rewired project open callout to create new electronic work for performance or installation. From the intimate to the expansive, each piece here invites us to perceive and reflect upon our world at a heightened level.
The performances will commence at 8pm sharp. Please arrive from 7pm to allow for time to view the installations.
Performances (Phipps Hall, second floor, Richard Steinitz Building)
Mary Stark
Mary will create a new expanded cinema performance featuring pattering rhythms, delicate melodies, mechanical noise and striking analogue projections. She will combine recent experiments with a music box and a Jacquard weaving pattern, with ongoing investigation into producing moving images and optical sound on 16mm film from fabric and machine stitch.
Ryoko Akama: under our sun
under our sun will be a live sound performance exploring sonic instability as a metaphor for environmental fragility under climate crisis. Through electronics and real-time processing, noise, silence and failure will become compositional elements.
Plus special guest to be announced.
Installations (Rooms RSG/04 & RSG/05, ground floor, Richard Steinitz Building: also available to view during the day on Thu 4 & Fri 5 June)
Naomi Hart: Save Progress?
Save Progress? is a computer game offering a dedicated space for people to explore how they may be feeling, moment to moment, in relation to the climate crisis. The game will aim to give the player a supportive and affirming experience with which to inquire into their own emotions, while providing a means of feeling connected to others who are doing the very same.
Anna Ross: my kitchen
An interactive and immersive installation based around a kitchen, with recordings strung together into an eclectic piece based around sensory overload.
About the artists
Mary Stark is an award winning experimental filmmaker and independent researcher based in Todmorden. She is a longstanding part of the Folklore Tapes collective, creating numerous live performances for events such as the British Textile Biennial and Full Of Noises Festival. In 2017 she was a recipient of an inaugural Oram Award. She has a practice based PhD from Manchester School of Art Research Centre for a project titled Film as Fabric: Connecting Textile Practice and Experimental Filmmaking through Expanded Cinema Performance (documented here). Her shows include the Contact Festival of New Experimental Film and Video, a specially commissioned camera-less 35mm film in response to the Delia Derbyshire Archive and a performance in a makeshift darkroom in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland.
Ryoko Akama is a Japanese-Korean artist working across installation, performance, and composition, based in Huddersfield. Her practice uses domestic appliances, waste materials, and DIY electronics to create kinetic sound works exploring noise and silence, time and space, and diasporic socio-political narratives.
Naomi Hart is a pianist, cellist and composer based in Leeds. Her work is mostly instrumental, and since completing a Masters in Sound and Music for Interactive Games, she now regularly creates music in combination with visual media, often incorporating elements of sound design techniques drawn from video game audio practices. Naomi’s musical influences include the pioneering techniques of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and she enjoys employing a range of similar processes to create interesting, playful and immersive musical worlds.
Anna Ross is a bassist based in Leeds. After studying Jazz at Leeds Conservatoire from 2021-24, she now works within the jazz and experimental music genres as both a musician (bass and electronics) and a promoter for her event Offshoots. Anna is also an artist, working mainly with gouache, photography and ceramics to document moments of her life. Her work can be seen as part of the Big Love Show book – Hyde Park Book Club (Feb 2026) and at Left Bank (March 2026).
Unearthed is presented in partnership with the University of Huddersfield.
The Amplification Project at the University of Huddersfield is funded by the Leverhulme International Professorship Scheme.
Rewired is supported by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England.
Thank-you to the supporters of YSWN’s Rewired crowdfunder.
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