“Listening Salon is a suitably hair-raising double bill of works from multidisciplinary artist Emma Diamond and sound artist Beth Robertson.
Parlour of Psithurism is a sound installation by artist Beth Robertson that explores the feminist nature of ecology, transforming repurposed hairdryer hoods into playful, intimate listening spaces. Psithurism – the sound of wind whispering through trees, from the Greek word for ‘whisper’ – is brought to life through recordings of Scotland’s temperate rainforests, played through speakers embedded within each hood. By reimagining the familiar setting of the salon as a site of care and conversation, Robertson invites audiences to listen closely to these soughing, tree-borne voices as if they were companions to nurture, learn from, care for and build communities with.”
Images credit: Iona Wheeler
