Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK) is an artist working at the intersections of sonic and sculptural forms, exploring systems of care, thresholds of experience, and the social architectures of our time. His practice has been described as a form of dissociative realism — moving between intimacy and estrangement, and attuned to forms of meaning that sit beyond the purely material.

A former medic with training in psychiatry, Zahedi holds an MA in Contemporary Photography and Philosophy from Central Saint Martins. Recent awards include the Stanley Picker Fellowship (2024), Artangel: Making Time (2023), Frieze Artist Award (2022), Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2021), and the Khadijah Saye Memorial Scholarship (2017). He is Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and has taught widely in the UK and internationally.

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Viviana Caro is a cognitive scientist and sound artist exploring the potential of sound to induce altered states of consciousness. Her work is grounded in Acoustic States of Consciousness, a methodology that shifts the question from what are we listening to? to what are we listening for? Working with Buchla synthesis and field recordings, she embraces slow, unpredictable and uncanny sonic forms that invite attention, altered perception and shared reflection.

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bill daggs’ multi-disciplinary practice employs listening as an act of resistance, memory as an act of defiance, and sound as a conduit for healing. Through plunderphonics, collaging and archiving, and sonic architectural investigation via deconstructivism, daggs explores sound’s effects on communities and dwellings in densely populated urban areas, its effects on common spaces, and amplifies these places as seminaries of play, improvisation, and mending.

daggs facilitates and runs sound structures a monthly improvisational sound evening, and is a member of the improv group 'Imperceptible Clouds’. 

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Tom Harris uses improvisational electronic and ambient music to explore and expand the boundaries of identity. Through rhythm, harmony, frequency, and vibration, he crafts immersive sensory experiences, tenderly inviting listeners back into their primary instrument: the body. In his work, sound becomes a container, an illuminator, a regulator, and a revealer of possibilities.

Tom’s embrace of fusion extends into interdisciplinary practice, feeling most at home between boundaries. His collaborative sound installation Earth Bound, with architecture studio FTGU and musician Juliana Day, transforms reclaimed steel plates and springs into resonant instruments, channeling sound through material to bridge the ethereal and the physical. The work has been shown in contemporary art galleries, festivals, and public spaces.

Releasing work under the identity In Sonic Service, Tom presents deep electronic improvisations through live streams. His recent project, Music Is Medicine, invites audiences to explore how music can act as a container for processing and understanding emotional experience.

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Royal Trinity Hospice is the local hospice for South West and Central London, providing free specialist palliative and end-of-life care for people living in Wandsworth and parts of Lambeth, Merton, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and Richmond. Royal Trinity Hospice supports patients from the moment of their diagnosis until the end of their lives, and afterwards, it supports those close to them for as long as they are needed.

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Imperial Health Charity helps hospitals do more through grants, arts, volunteering and fundraising. Working in partnership with the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial Health Charity funds major redevelopments, research and medical equipment at five London hospitals – Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea, St Mary’s and the Western Eye – as well as helping patients and their families at times of extreme financial difficulty. Supporting the arts in healthcare, Imperial Health Charity manages an Arts Council-accredited hospital art collection and runs an arts engagement programme for patients and NHS staff. Imperial Health Charity also manages volunteering across all five hospitals, adding value to the work of staff and helping to improve the hospital experience for patients.

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This event will take place in The Mulberry Room at Royal Trinity Hospice. You will be guided to the space upon arrival. The event will have seating options, including bean bags, cushions and chairs.

Please note that this event will be audio-recorded and included in the project’s online archive. 

Royal Trinity Hospice’s spaces are wheelchair accessible. Disabled toilets can be found around the building. Further information on access at Royal Trinity Hospice can be found here.

Image courtesy of Abbas Zahedi