Join us for the next episode of What The Hat
In this series, invited guests share their tactics, strategies, hopes, and dreams while reflecting on the many hats we choose to wear — and those we must — as creatives navigating overlapping political, social, economic, and climate crises. Together, they explore the essential approaches for sustaining artistic and cultural practices in response to the urgent challenges of our time.
This episode welcomes musician SHHE and sound artist Riah Naief for a conversation on tactics, strategies, connection, and the power of listening in building collective practice.
Shaped around the theme of ‘Regeneration’, the series is co-programmed by a committee of young people to:
• Share creative tactics
• Demystify pathways into the arts
• Reimagine how the sector could grow in the future
Future episodes will continue to shine a light on Dundee’s emerging artists, designers, curators, activists, and organisers who keep the city’s grassroots creative scene alive.
This event will be recorded.
Image credit: Upstart 2024 by Ben Douglas
Podcast guests
SHHE
SHHE is the alias of Scottish-Portuguese artist, musician and producer Su Shaw. Influenced by environment and ecology, her artistic practice explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection between sound, space and liminal states. SHHE’s eponymous debut album was released by One Little Independent Records and shortlisted for Scottish Album of the Year 2020. Sound works, performances and sound installations have been presented at V&A Dundee co-commissioned by MSCTY Tokyo, Edinburgh Festival, Summerhall, Dundee Botanic Gardens, Hangar (Lisbon, PT), Rawabet (Cairo, EG), Jesuit Cultural Centre (Alexandria, EG), Tankur/Westfjords Residency (IS), Erbil Citadel (Kurdistan, IQ) and BFI and Sensoria’s FAMLAB.
Riah Naief
Riah Naief is a sound artist and runs Listen Gallery, a sound arts gallery and communal listening space in Glasgow. The theory and practice of listening is at the root of their practice. Sonic experimentation within the cultural sector is growing, evolving, and adapting in response to interaction and participation, Listen Gallery offers the context for this exploration to continue. Sound arts thus become an access point for listening as an activity, in which a shared process of education allows people to discover personal, artistic and scientific insights. Listening becomes a revolutionary act, a way to shape and change behaviours and society.
