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Jade Hopkinson
To become comfortable, we must be exposed to the uncomfortable. Performative sound artist Jade Hopkinson has sought to reveal the potentials of vulnerability. Her focus is on altering nostalgias into artificial atmospheres and using the human voice to lure the audience into a false sense of security and a discomfort. The installation ‘Filthy Hands’ (2020) purposely disturbs listeners. Hopkinson states, “I want to spotlight ambiguity, contriving both sympathy and uncertainty”. Once discomfort was provoked, Hopkinson discovered a shared platform for finding comfort through fear. “It teaches us a difficult lesson we are all too afraid to learn alone”.