Hannan Jones is an artist of Algerian and Welsh descent, who grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, in Western Australia, and is based between Glasgow and Marseille. Her practice, rooted in research and process, sits at the intersection of moving image, installation, and sound. Hannan explores in depth notions of hybridity, language, and rhythms linked to cultural and social migrations, as well as psychogeography. In her sonic work, she draws on improvisation, electronics, musique concrète, and analog recordings. By using sampling and layering of sound materials to create alternative possibilities, she reactivates parallel histories and reimagines the connections between them. A graduate of the Sculpture and Environmental Art department, she was an associate artist at Open School East between 2020 and 2021. Her previous presentations include: Triangle, Marseille; Artes Mundi and the National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon; CCA Annex; Café Oto, London; Edinburgh Art Festival; New Radicalisms, Rotterdam; Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London; REWIRE, The Hague; and La Chunky, Glasgow.
Winner of the 2023 Oram Award, Hannan is currently in residence at Wysing Arts Centre.

Samir Kennedy is a British/Algerian queer artist based in Marseille, working at the intersection of choreography, performance, sound, and video. He discovered performance during a primary school choir concert, when, in his own words, a voice emerged from his mouth that seemed not to belong to him. He then pursued musical theatre before finding his path in contemporary dance, which he studied at Laban (UK), graduating in 2013. He also holds a Master’s degree from the Exerce program at the Montpellier National Choreographic Centre, completed in 2023. Since then, he has developed a diverse, interdisciplinary practice, working internationally in multiple contexts and roles—as performer, choreographer, director, sound designer, and dramaturge—across both established theatres and experimental spaces, clubs, and galleries. His work engages critically with themes of class, race, otherness, queerness, and abjection. Placing the body at the center of his research, he uses it as a site to explore and subvert archetypal figures—such as the devil, the zombie, or the clown—to interrogate collective consciousness and cultural symbolism. These figures provide a framework for examining intersectional identities. His approach combines aestheticized sociological markers with speculative narratives, destabilizing conventional representations and proposing alternative realities where queer existentialism and liminal identities can be explored and reimagined. While his formal interests vary with each project, they are always understood as choreographic in their treatment of sonic, visual, and temporal dimensions.

Concept & Performance: Hannan Jones & Samir Kennedy 

Triangle-Astérides, centre d’art contemporain d’intérêt national ; The Common Guild and Wysing Arts Centre

Relay à The Common Guild, Glasgow © Alan Dimmick