Zoe Irvine's Outputs (9)

900 Voices (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Irvine, Z. (2024, August 2-October 19). 900 Voices [Performance]. St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. https://www.900voices.org/

900 Voices is a participative sound art project by Zoë Irvine with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. It has been commissioned as part of Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral’s momentous 900th Anniversary celebrations.

900 Voices is a sound art installa... Read More about 900 Voices.

Lost for Words (2025)
Digital Artefact
(2025). Lost for Words [Film]. https://www.lostforwords.fr/

My contribution to this feature documentary (dir. Hanah Papacek Harper), investigates how film sound can articulate silence, disfluency, and ecological presence as affective rather than purely communicative phenomena. The research question was: how c... Read More about Lost for Words.

Conversations on Belonging: conversation recording and nonlinear, polyphonic composition as methodologies for encounter in the 900 Voices project (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Irvine, Z., & Rawlinson, J. (2025, September 4-October 4). Conversations on Belonging: conversation recording and nonlinear, polyphonic composition as methodologies for encounter in the 900 Voices project [Presentation / Talk]. MECCSA, Edinburgh Napier University.

This session explores notions of belonging, connection, and community through a performative and discursive presentation of 900 Voices, a sound artwork focused on these themes, originally installed in St Giles' Cathedral for the Edinburgh Internation... Read More about Conversations on Belonging: conversation recording and nonlinear, polyphonic composition as methodologies for encounter in the 900 Voices project.

The Lockdown Oratorio of a Call Centre Operator (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Irvine, Z. (2022, April 20-July 20). The Lockdown Oratorio of a Call Centre Operator. BBC Radio 3. https://luxscotland.org.uk/programme/events/zoe-irvine-the-lockdown-oratorio-of-a-call-centre-operator

The Lockdown Oratorio of a Call Centre Operator investigates how radio can mediate collective experience through documentary sound and musical structure. The research questions were: (1) how can recordings of dispersed operatic communities, originall... Read More about The Lockdown Oratorio of a Call Centre Operator.

High Winds, Slippery Surfaces (2021)
Digital Artefact
(2021). High Winds, Slippery Surfaces [Short film]. https://www.pernille-spence.co.uk/copy-of-getting-okay-with-not-being-o

High Winds & Slippery Surfaces is a one minute screendance film by Pernille Spence, Corinne Jola and Zoë Irvine, commissioned by GOAT Media with funding from Creative Scotland. Additional support from Screen Scotland, Screen.dance, Film Hub Scotland... Read More about High Winds, Slippery Surfaces.

Bob & Sink (2020)
Book Chapter
Irvine, Z., & Spence, P. (2020). Bob & Sink. Future Now 2020: 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize (pp. 212-213). Future Now.

Future Now is a dedicated magazine featuring the long list of 100 artists selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize.
Featuring the work "Bob & Sink" by Pernille Spence and Zoe Irvine on pages 212/213.
The Aesthetica Art Prize invites you to discover ne... Read More about Bob & Sink.

THIS EVENING'S PERFORMANCE HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Irvine, Z. (2020, February 2-June 21). THIS EVENING'S PERFORMANCE HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED [Performance].

As the theatres and opera houses of Europe closed their doors due to the Corona Virus pandemic, this project was created to connect performers and audience.

We designed a call centre that connected audience members by phone to a behind the scenes... Read More about THIS EVENING'S PERFORMANCE HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED.

Pernille Spence & Zoë Irvine [interview] (2018)
Book Chapter
Irvine, Z., & Spence, P. (2018). Pernille Spence & Zoë Irvine [interview]. WomenCinemakers (pp. 80-101). Women Cinemakers. https://issuu.com/women-cinemakers/docs/vol.33

Interview in WomenCinemakers with Zoë Irvine & Pernille Spence regarding House Arrest series of work.

Bob & Sink: RSA Annual Exhibition 2018, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Bob & Sink: RSA Annual Exhibition 2018, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh [Exhibition]. (2018, May 5-June 6).

The RSA Annual Exhibition is a focal point of the RSA programme and showcases work from RSA Academicians the length and breadth of Scotland. Now in its 192nd year, it continues to provide a platform for contemporary painting, sculpture, film, printma... Read More about Bob & Sink: RSA Annual Exhibition 2018, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.