https://hannahellul.com Hannah Ellul Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:14:46 +0000 https://hannahellul.com en https://hannahellul.com/Home-1 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:45:06 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/Home-1 <img width="1240" height="1748" width_o="1240" height_o="1748" src_o="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9eafc748f04501dee55442ed881cec7e6a5ec15c61b7515193e949c717de0d3/HHA_card2.jpg" data-mid="17525112" border="0" style="width: 810.5625px; height: 1142.6316532258065px; display: none;"><img width="1115" height="626" width_o="1115" height_o="626" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a392803c804379c9b64cf476a1fb4078a6751944e9dd2a09114a2a04303612f2/Lenis_still.png" data-mid="111611090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a392803c804379c9b64cf476a1fb4078a6751944e9dd2a09114a2a04303612f2/Lenis_still.png" /> https://hannahellul.com/WORKS Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:45:06 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/WORKS WORKS https://hannahellul.com/Knot Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:14:46 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/Knot KNOTCollaboration with Rebecca Wilcox, 2024 4 channel sound installation with live interventions and mixed media: papier-mâché casts, graphite on paper, photographic print, perspex, acetone transfer on tracing paper, LED light, digital print. Part of an ongoing collaboration with Wilcox (pictured below, during a live performance of Knot at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow). Working primarily in sound, we use field recordings, processed voice and synthesis. <img width="1712" height="1218" width_o="1712" height_o="1218" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3abfe3dc215d23f11a45cbc497b145a38ed3f64161657416da0e90dd66c19a6f/broadside-print.jpg" data-mid="231528490" border="0" alt="From Knot. Digital print of collaborative text, 420 x 595mm, 2024" data-caption="From &lt;em&gt;Knot&lt;/em&gt;. Digital print of collaborative text, 420 x 595mm, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3abfe3dc215d23f11a45cbc497b145a38ed3f64161657416da0e90dd66c19a6f/broadside-print.jpg" /> From Knot. Digital print of collaborative text, 420 x 595mm <img width="3508" height="2256" width_o="3508" height_o="2256" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e4e6cb4223ac2d70dc8a79c2259889e12ddb57aba11b213586aaa62dd3dbdf3/broadside-setup.jpg" data-mid="231517454" border="0" alt="Knot installed at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow, December 2024" data-caption="&lt;em&gt;Knot&lt;/em&gt; installed at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow, December 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e4e6cb4223ac2d70dc8a79c2259889e12ddb57aba11b213586aaa62dd3dbdf3/broadside-setup.jpg" /> Knot installed at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow, December 2024 <img width="5669" height="3779" width_o="5669" height_o="3779" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/861fd3f2d704b22e535e5bc7b81141eee9b91aebdee7af45bfb8c2d0fbe04a6c/broadside-drawing.jpg" data-mid="231515914" border="0" alt="From Knot. Graphite on paper, 420 x 594mm; photographic print, 152 x 101mm; clear and tinted perspex, various dimensions; installed at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow, December 2024" data-caption="From Knot. Graphite on paper, 420 x 594mm; photographic print, 152 x 101mm; clear and tinted perspex, various dimensions; installed at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow, December 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/861fd3f2d704b22e535e5bc7b81141eee9b91aebdee7af45bfb8c2d0fbe04a6c/broadside-drawing.jpg" /> From Knot. Graphite on paper, 420 x 594mm; photographic print, 152 x 101mm; clear and tinted perspex, various dimensions; installed at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow, December 2024 &nbsp;<img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3dedd6b78b9e23c94a7a5926a69db19812ef4a20b8261802ac9b8b15dd9270c/knot-drawing-detail.jpg" data-mid="231527726" border="0" alt="Detail from Knot. Graphite on paper, 420 x 594mm" data-caption="Detail from &lt;em&gt;Knot&lt;/em&gt;. Graphite on paper, 420 x 594mm" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3dedd6b78b9e23c94a7a5926a69db19812ef4a20b8261802ac9b8b15dd9270c/knot-drawing-detail.jpg" /> From Knot (detail). Graphite on paper, 420 x 594mm https://hannahellul.com/DaysandYears Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:08:34 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/DaysandYears DAYS AND YEARSMultichannel sound installation, 2025 This project is shaped by thinking around language loss, translation and song, particularly in the Arab diaspora. Like much of my work, the work pays attention to the materiality and corporeality of voices. It places particular emphasis on moments of hesitation, repetition, and non-verbal sound as people describe their changing relationship with Arabic, their first language. This began with observations of my family’s changing relationship with the language, living in the UK, and conversations on the experience of losing a mother tongue. Recordings of those conversations form its primary material. Developed in residence at Q-O2, a workspace for experimental music and sound art in Brussels, https://hannahellul.com/Ya_Mayla Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:51:15 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/Ya_Mayla YA MAYLAPerformance, 2023 · Performance at Gr’ambacht, Mechelen, Belgium, June 2023. Part of an ongoing project developed in residence at Q-O2, a workspace for experimental music and sound art in Brussels. The project explores language loss, translation and song, particularly in the Arab diaspora; and pays attention to the materiality and corporeality of voices. This performance was built from recordings of conversations about one song in particular, Ya Mayla Al Ghoussoune by Fairuz. Song lyrics are (mis)-translated and these translations, with all their idiosyncrasies, hesitations, inaccuracies and certainties, have their own poetry. https://hannahellul.com/lenis-2hb-1 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:17:21 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/lenis-2hb-1 LENISPublication, 2023 · <img width="417" height="593" width_o="417" height_o="593" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edbb3feef04a9793672a07ff238aab7312f223afcb5b2254bb4af2f7ddc07404/Lenis_2HB.jpg" data-mid="204716301" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/417/i/edbb3feef04a9793672a07ff238aab7312f223afcb5b2254bb4af2f7ddc07404/Lenis_2HB.jpg" /> <img width="414" height="590" width_o="414" height_o="590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1761b4525db256c5af7490a84af7c41d2d57c761223a64420a9091c1eca2634a/Lenis1.jpg" data-mid="205000577" border="0" alt="First page of 'Lenis', published in 2HB 26 (2023)" data-caption="First page of 'Lenis', published in 2HB 26 (2023)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/414/i/1761b4525db256c5af7490a84af7c41d2d57c761223a64420a9091c1eca2634a/Lenis1.jpg" /> Published in volume 26 of 2HB, a journal for&nbsp;creative and experimental writing in contemporary art. This includes drawings from the Lenition series, and is a development of work begun in the earlier video work Lenis. Read the work as published in 2HB here. https://hannahellul.com/Lenition Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:37:29 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/Lenition LENITIONLenition drawings.&nbsp;From an ongoing series, 2021-2023 <img width="3622" height="2597" width_o="3622" height_o="2597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db8b8b2a3d4d730a1e3d2c95614f26113d8ac280cf88f4d041dce61edb584440/lenition-drawing1_web2.jpg" data-mid="153112201" border="0" alt="Lenition 1, graphite on paper, 590 x 416mm" data-caption="&lt;em&gt;Lenition 1&lt;/em&gt;, graphite on paper, 590 x 416mm" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db8b8b2a3d4d730a1e3d2c95614f26113d8ac280cf88f4d041dce61edb584440/lenition-drawing1_web2.jpg" /> Drawings from everyday notebooks that pay particular attention to the scrawled lines, the accidental or extraneous marks. The drawings are a development of my interest in signs of the the loosening of language and the traces of physical effort behind it, evident in handwriting as in the voice. The drawings become something like visual poems. At the same time, among the mundane notes there are snatches of phrases that had an aphoristic quality, which have been translated into poem-prints. And so the work is shaped by processes of transcription and translation, and the play of intimacy and distance that characterises those practices. I am interested in drawing—and especially copying—as a physical undertaking that performs that play of closeness and distance. https://hannahellul.com/Lenis Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:30:18 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/Lenis LENIS Video, 5:09 minutes, 2021 Produced for Pommel, a broadcast for Nottingham Contemporary. First aired 16 July 2021. Produced for an exhibition looking at artists working at the intersection of textual, visual, and sonic performance, this video brings together snatches of sound with images from found notebooks and domestic detritus. It marks an early exploration of themes that have shaped the subsequent work,&nbsp;Lenition. Lenition is a linguistic term for a weakening of certain spoken sounds, from the Latin ‘lenis’, for soft. Ideas of weakness and softness have guided this work. Our induction into language is an induction into social discipline. When language breaks down—as when the body breaks down—the loss of that discipline is understood as weakness and incoherence (and sometimes insubordination). Developing this work has brought these terms into view, refracted in the biographical elements that come through in the source material I use. https://hannahellul.com/breathless Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:04:36 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/breathless BREATHLESS Radio broadcast, 30:00 minutes, 2019-2020 Co-commissioned by Radiophrenia and Kunstradio Radiokunst for Ö1, Austria. A radiophonic work that trawls through voicemails to think about ‘dys-appearing’ bodies, that impose themselves at the moment of their dysfunction; about attempts to communicate across a void. A portrait of a condition on the verge of speech. Since the broadcast I have been working on a text that pursues the themes raised in the work more expansively: reflecting on fathers and daughters, halted speech, and also ideas cast in a new light by recent events: breath, toxic environments, class and the politics of public health. Bodily and material perspectives provoke broader questions about the disparities of privilege and power shaping our subjective experience. https://hannahellul.com/WhatNeedsDoing Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:31:43 +0000 Hannah Ellul https://hannahellul.com/WhatNeedsDoing WHAT NEEDS DOINGLive radio broadcast, 29 minutes; sound diffusion performance, 2017-2020 I’ve always just tried to do what needs doing. Betty TebbsThe first performance of this work, a sonic essay about the life of Betty Tebbs,&nbsp;was broadcast live on Glasgow-based art radio station Radiophrenia in November 2017. Tebbs, an English activist who died in 2017 at 98, was a socialist, feminist and self-declared revolutionary. Her life was spent agitating for political change, including as a trade unionist and anti-imperialist peace campaigner. Tebbs’ unpublished memoir and interviews are the starting point for this project, that incorporates readings, archival recordings and field recordings. The work looks to Tebbs’ story to consider how political subjects are formed, and how the political horizons of the present are shaped by encounters with the histories of collective struggle. A new iteration of the ongoing project was presented in residency at Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland, in 2019. The work was reconfigured for live sound diffusion across the gallery space. It was shaped by developing ideas around life-writing as political praxis, and how sound and performance might draw out the affective and embodied aspects of political experience.