Re-Imagining In Conversation is a performative exploration of the “in-conversation” format, extending multiple overlapping and diverging themes through sonic and visual improvisation.

This research-based sonic venture encompasses speculation, jazz poetics, improvisation, and dreaming. It explores a wide range of shared and diverging research interests, from Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation to Female Voices in Revolution: Autobiography and Collective Memory in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade and Merle Collins’s Angel, a text connecting the orality of Algeria with Caribbean oral traditions.

Together, Jones and Ruddock have performed at Counterflows Festival, Glasgow; Oscillations Festival curated by QO2, Brussels; Archive Books x Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Cafe OTO, London; Madeira Dig, Portugal; Silent Green, Berlin; and La Chunky, Glasgow.

They have held residencies with Akademie Schloss Solitude in partnership with Liquid Architecture for Algorithmic Poetry Web Residencies, the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, and CCA Annex, where they published Re-Imagining In Conversation as an online audio-research-essay in collaboration with Rectangle Studios.

Currently, they are artists in residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, supported by Forma and Knotenpunkt.