Bradley (b. Iran) is sound artist, composer and arts-broadcaster who works with listening, language and the environment to question our sense of self and our place within the environment. Bradley’s practice spans performance, broadcast, installation and sculpture, and revolves around experimental music, listening and an interest in modes of communication.
Bradley’s sculptural works employ treated found objects, textiles and electronics, while live performances question architecture, public space and history. Often centered around an installation of sculpture, her research-based practice has additionally been as part of sound-art duo Bradley-Weaver since 2013.
In 2013 Sound and Music, the leading body for sound art and experimental music in the UK, awarded Bradley a year’s residency in cine film studio no.w.here (London) and her practice then consolidated itself with the four years working in the UAE and around the Persian Gulf, (UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and Karachi (Pakistan) for both solo shows and a series of sound art and experimental music commissions. She is now working and studying for a practice-based PhD in Sound Art the London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts, London.
After the Game, 2017. Drill cotton, found frame, embroidery, 24x34cm
Solo work
Broadcast
At UK’s experimental arts-radio station Resonance104.4fm since 2004, Bradley has performed live-improv and composed graphic scores both solo and for live radio with the Resonance Radio Orchestra. Her weekly radio programmeSix Pillars, live broadcast on 104.4FM, is on Middle Eastern, North African arts and culture.
For seven years her show on experimental dance music: Free Lab Radio, ran simultaneously.
Bradley has conceived and produced several pop up radio projects for Art Dubai, Jaou Tunis (Tunisia), South London Gallery and more. Radio commissions include a broadcast sound walk for MonaFoma 2018, at The Museum of Old and New Art, (Tasmania) and Petrosubjectivity, Radio Revolten, Halle, Germany.
Due to Free Lab Radio, Bradley has DJ’d in unlikely venues from museums (e.g National Portrait Gallery, ICA London) to art galleries and international music festivals such as Glastonbury, Exit Festival (Serbia) and Bestival (Isle of Wight), to moored boats (Venice Biennial for the Danish Pavilion), Cafe Oto (Daphne Oram’s unreleased recordings) art openings such as Sharjah Biennial (UAE) and London squat parties (Area 21, Peckham).
On air Bradley has interviewed a gamut of great names in the fine arts, music and film such as: Yinka Shonibare OBE, Charlie Dark, Acid Man, Mr Scruff, Egyptian Lover and many, many more.
Electric Dreams, 2017. Lightbox with inkjet print, 60x990cm
Sculpture
Designed to provoke active listening, Bradley’s work has exhibited in galleries such as Maraya Arts Centre (Sharjah), The Mine (Dubai), Tashkeel (Dubai) and in group shows at Strange Cargo Gallery (Folkestone), The Art of Nuisance exhibition for Sisters of Perpetual Resistance (London), Raven Row (London) and Prince’s Galleries (Shoreditch, London).
Installation
With an interest in materiality, Bradley has worked with electronics, sound objects and textiles to create works for solo and group shows to examine language, the act of memorising and human self-perception. Her work has appeared at Raven Row (London), Sight and Sound Festival (Folkestone) and The Mine (Dubai).
Collaborative Work
As Sound-Art Duo Bradley-Weaver, with Chris Weaver, sculptural and installation works investigating materiality, architecture and history were featured in solo and group shows. Artist commissions included Al Serkal Avenue, Sharjah Government (Leffayeh Wildlife Centre), D3, Design District, Dubai, Art Dubai 2015 (performance and installation), Quoz Fest (Dubai) and the International Symposium of Electronica Art 2014 (Dubai, The pop up radio station Falgoosh Radio, (an arts-radio installation at Art Dubai 2013-2014) involved experiments in experimental radio, arts discussion and field recording and together they have broadcast in pop up radio stations at Middlesborough Institute for Modern Art for AV08, Frieze Art Fair 2006-2010 inclusive, at the Serpentine Gallery for Ririkrit Tirivanija’s solo show and a UBS weekend at Tate Modern for Resonance104.4FM.
Bradley-Weaver’s work also employs live, experimental music performance, commissioned include Circular Landscapes at the Maraya Arts Centre, Al Qasba Theatre (Sharjah) and Al Serkal Avenue (Dubai), Sikka Art Fair (Dubai), The Mine (Dubai), Void Gallery for the European Capital City of Culture (Londonderry, N. Ireland), ReUse Kuwait and more.
The limited edition artist-vinyl record, Systems for a Score, was made during a live installation during their solo show at Tashkeel (Dubai) is online at The Vinyl Factory, UK. Together Bradley-Weaver also produced an experimental radio series for the Sharjah Art Foundation on radio history in the UAE, which featured on Clocktower Radio (New York) and in October 2018 on BBC Radio 4 Xtra (UK).
Talks
Bradley’s research has led to presenting as an artist, and as Bradley-Weaver, at academic conferences and arts symposiums: Animal Utterances (Bristol University), LOMA conference (London College of Communication), Suden Radio (Villa Romana, Florence), Beirut Arts Centre (Lebanon), Redbull Radio Basscamp Dubai, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), The American University Dubai, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (Karachi), REuse Kuwait, Habib University, (Karachi) and New York University Abu Dhabi, Share Conference (across Belgrade, Beirut and Croatia).
Radio Revolten live on-air performance, Halle, Germany 2017
As a Quartet
Making electro-acoustic, experimental improv, Oscillatorial Binnage has featured in The Wire music magazine’s Under the Radar compilation release and performing at Cafe Oto (London), Merge Bankside Festival, Wellcome Trust, Tate Modern and more.
Composer and Improvising Performer
Composer commissions include for the Resonance Radio Orchestra at London Architecture Week and the Victoria and Albert Museum and bespoke pieces for the South London Gallery, ICA London, Frieze Projects, The London Mela 2010 and 2011.
Performances include the Wapping Project (London), Club Integral (London), REuse Kuwait, Sikka 2014 (Dubai), Noise of the Middle East, NYU (Abu Dhabi), London Mela and many more.
A series of artist’s residencies, such as an Embedded Residency for a cine film installation using crude oil on Iranian home movies from the 1970s, awarded by Sound and Music, UK’s body for sound art and composition and hosted at n.o.where studios (London). Other residencies were with Chris Weaver, and include the Lahore Biennial Foundation (at Habib University, Karachi), New York University Abu Dhabi, Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah Art Foundation, Beirut Arts Centre, and Malja Studios, Bahrain.
Collaborative performance, Malja Bahrain
Writing
Oxford Handbooks (2019), The Wire magazine, Ibraaz online, Canvas Magazine, Brownbook Magazine and Arte East.
Sound-Art Duo Bradley-Weaver, with Chris Weaver, sculptural and installation works investigating materiality, architecture and history were featured in solo and group shows. Artist commissions included Al Serkal Avenue, Sharjah Government (Leffayeh Wildlife Centre), D3, Design District, Dubai, Art Dubai 2015 (performance and installation), Quoz Fest (Dubai) and the International Symposium of Electronica Art 2014 (Dubai, The pop up radio station Falgoosh Radio, (an arts-radio installation at Art Dubai 2013-2014) involved experiments in experimental radio, arts discussion and field recording and together they have broadcast in pop up radio stations at Middlesborough Institute for Modern Art for AV08, Frieze Art Fair 2006-2010 inclusive, at the Serpentine Gallery for Ririkrit Tirivanija’s solo show and a UBS weekend at Tate Modern for Resonance104.4FM.
