Sensible Activities is a project centred around exercises, instructions, and performance strategies which transpose mediated ways of seeing and hearing - informed by the ubiquitous presence of screens, speakers, and edited media in our day to day lives - into environments one step removed from digital technology. 

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Springing from from a place of equal fasciation and nauseation then, these activities are not simply listening experiences, but are designed as unusual, active excursions into natural or outdoor environments; a practice that requires little external infrastructure to be realised. 

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Many are available for anyone to try themselves, but as as body of work have also cohered as a series of carefully and precisely designed excursions. Indeed, when thinking about accessing these intermediated states I am drawn to the outdoors; spaces explicitly divorced from media-saturated domestic and urban spaces. There’s also just something about stepping into nature, into the forest, or the silent midnight city that is genuinely transformative. Our senses are naturally heightened. We see and hear in new ways, but also feel subtle changes in the air, or the texture of the ground underfoot. Natural spaces are not bound up like galleries, theatres, and concert halls with codes and rules of behaviour. Time functions differently away from Acts and Intervals in favour of more unpredictable forces; the length of a day, the fork in the road, the serendipitous encounter,  the turn in the weather, hunger, naps, or any number of our own whims. It is more dreamlike, perhaps.

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