'In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation' featuring Haroon Mirza at Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, United Kingdom

27 May 2025

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On 5 July 2025, Haroon Mirza will be performing at Focal Point Gallery as part of their exhibition titled 'In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation'. The exhibition brings together over 20 works, some of which have never been shown in a public gallery before. The exhibition engages with the theme of translation – through storytelling and myth, history and memory, language and materials.

Haroon Mirza is known for creating autonomous, self-powering systems that generate sound and light from electrical signals. For 'In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation', the artist presents a new audio work and live performance with a choir and actors from the local leading drama school, East 15. The audio work will be played at intervals in the gallery space, throughout the exhibition’s duration, instigating a dialogue between the works on view and this sonic intervention.

The live performance on 5 July entitled Adam, Eve, Others and a UFO for Choral Octet, explores translation through sound, rhythm, performance and communal participation. By weaving together voices that translate electrical signals into voiced notes, Mirza’s commission makes translation a live and participatory process, one that reveals the endless possibilities of the human voice.

Saturday 5 July 2025, 4pm
Clifftown Theatre, Southend-on-Sea

Find out more via Focal Point Gallery.

Image: Haroon Mirza, The Three ///’s, 2021. Live performance at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool Biennial 2021. Photography: Callum Mills