Podcast 49 – Defending Arts & Culture in Brighton & Hove 5 Whitehawk, Sound Art & Class Divide with Simon James

In May 2024, as part of the Brighton Festival, sound artist Simon James collaborated with young artists in Whitehawk to produce an installation in the Lighthouse’s project space. The exhibition was entitled a Neolithic Cannibals and explored the Neolithic archaeological site and its relationship to the soundscape of Whitehawk today. The exhibition was created in conjunction with Class Divide, a campaign to address the class divide in education in Brighton and Hove. Class Divide was co-founded by Simon’s twin brother Curtis James and is accompanied by a fantastic podcast series.

In this session, we talk about the class divide, Whitehawk, education and how sound art can be used to intervene in a fundamentally unjust system.

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