Through site-responsive and speculative sonic encounters, Amias Hanley explores how sound is instrumentalised, entangled, and contested. Their work engages particularly with queer ecologies and transgender studies, where sound operates not only as a medium but as a method of resistance, refusal, and re-imagining.
These concerns intersect with non-human agency, technological mediation, and the biopolitics of communication—raising critical questions about who or what is listened to, how meaning is assigned, and the power structures embedded within auditory cultures. Hanley’s practice investigates how listening and signal-making are never neutral acts but are enmeshed within histories of surveillance, environmental politics, and representation. By attending to these entanglements, their work generates sonic propositions that challenge fixed categories, invite alternative modes of sensing, and propose new ways of relating across species, environments, and technologies.