Duncan Speakman is an artist based in Bristol, UK. His work examines how we use sound to locate ourselves in personal and political environments. Seeking out the poetics of the everyday, he creates socially relevant experiences that engage audiences emotionally and physically in public spaces.

He often employs walking as both a process and/or an outcome of his work, partly because it is ‘within the speed culture of our time, a kind of resistance’ (Alys).

He aims to adapt and combine Grierson’s definition of documentary as ‘the creative treatment of actuality’ with the travelling maxim of ‘take only photographs, leave only footprints.’Many of the pieces he creates, such as the soundwalks and live performances, are experienced on headphones while walking through public spaces. Sometimes that are pre-recorded, at other times they may use satellite positioning, live performers and realtime sound processing. Other works include large scale video projections, micro-documentaries and books.

He is a senior lecturer in Media Practice at the University of the West of England and is currently developing site-responsive soundwalks, street games and pervasive theatre works.He has been exhibited internationally at festivals including ISEA (Nagoya), Futuresonic (Manchester), RADAR (Mexico City), enter (Cambridge), Liveworks (Sydney) Navigate Live (Gateshead) and InBetweenTime (Bristol). In 2001 he was awarded the Clark Trust Bursary for digital arts and has received critical acclaim for his videoblog 29fragiledays. In 2007 he was peer advisor on the Almost Perfect locative media residency at Banff New Media Institute and since since 2008 has been an artist in residence at the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol.

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