OPAL announces a new residency program that will launch in tandem with We See You, with a sound installation by Mami Takahashi in the second studio upstairs. Visit our new page with more details and a portal for future residency submissions.

My Word is Hard to Hear May 2024

OPAL's inaugural artist-in-residence, Mami Takahashi, presents a sound installation with her collaborator, Adrian McBride as art collective, Spiral Body. This work is an investigation into intimacy, but perhaps not closeness, in public spaces using the sonic of poetry reading of Takahashi's poems. Takahashi used vocabulary from her old journals made decades ago in Japanese, and processed into English using online translation software. By filtering these original writings, Takahashi attempted to question who has "access" and is "American", in terms of the relationship of English usage.