Autograph’s new exhibition uses collage to ask how images can stand in for disputed – and often entangled – narratives when words fail.

For this live performance in the gallery, we’ve partnered with HOUSE OF DREAD, a heritage studio that uses archival material to research the complicated stories and experiences of the people, places and movements that have been undocumented, under-researched or forgotten.

Their Researcher-in-Residence will perform an immersive sonic collage, created from field recordings, oral histories, ambient soundscapes, and other sources – exploring how sound operates as presence, erasure and resistance within archives. Following the sound performance, there will be time for a Q&A.

This event opens House of Dread’s upcoming symposium 'Thinking Wid Silence' at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Wednesday 2 December 2025.