How Does the Moon Walk?
2024
Sound installation with live performance to camera video
Peace lilies, turntables, electric guitars, amplifiers, cables, found footage, monitor, iPad, printed archival pages immersed in Deptford Creek during

related performance
Dimensions variable

APT Gallery, London
 

How Does the Moon Walk? is a sound installation in which peace lilies rotate on record decks, their leaves brushing against guitar strings to produce a continuous amplified drone.
 

The work emerged from research into space science, astronomy and the politics of knowledge production: who is allowed to speak for truth, whose messages are carried into the future, and whose bodies are excluded from official narratives of progress.
 

Through archival fragments connected to the 1969 lunar landing and Mae Jemison, the installation unsettles heroic narratives of exploration, universality and belonging. Sound is generated through non-human contact, shifting agency between plant, instrument, electricity, room and listener.
 

Rotation becomes a method of return. Plants circle, sound repeats, images loop and histories come back altered. The installation holds these cycles as a fragile live system: continuous, unstable and never quite the same.