Ashley Holmes

For Gatherings, artist Ashley Holmes will present Dub Epistemology, an ongoing series of hybrid talks and live audio essays that treat sound as both archive and method. For this event, Holmes builds on his collaborative work with Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika, & Zoë Guthrie for aweys gaun, an upcoming exhibition part of Glasgow International 2026 - a project that honours the longstanding “hereness” of Black life in Scotland, calling and responding to, and swaying with, the Black Atlantic hum.

In this next chapter of his live audio essay series, Holmes explores the river as a recurring sonic and symbolic presence across Black musical traditions, tracing it as a site of memory, migration, spirituality, resistance, and return. Dub Epistemology proposes active, critical listening through personal collections of music, records, and Black Atlantic audio as a way of knowing.