About

Sally Golding is an Australian-British interdisciplinary artist based in Kamberri/Canberra, working across participatory installations, immersive audiovisual performances, situational sound art, and creative-critical writing.

Her practice activates the social architecture of shared spaces, by transforming traditional and emerging media communication technologies into ephemeral and multisensory experiences. Golding’s work draws on themes of perception and phenomenology to create encounters that question reality and deconstruct traditional narrative forms such as through signals and transmissions.

Using sonic and visual fragments, she reimagines the core elements of audiovisual media—light, substrate, and amplification—to create compositions that encourage alternative ways of perceiving. With a foundation in expanded cinema and avant-garde music, Golding’s sensory performances and interactive installations explore intersections of technology and folklore. Her works are situated in social spaces such as galleries, cinemas, and clubs, where they centre the viewer's experience and encourage active engagement with compositions that extend beyond conventional boundaries of threshold and presence.

Golding is an inaugural recipient of the Oram Award (New BBC Radiophonic Workshop/PRS Foundation) for women innovating in sound and creative technologies, and rostered for the prestigious SHAPE platform, celebrating innovative music and audiovisual art in Europe. Golding’s work has been recognised in publications including Oxford University Press, Tate Modern, Palgrave Macmillan, I.B Tauris/Bloomsbury, Millennium Film Journal, Senses of Cinema, and The Wire.

Exhibitions and performances highlights include Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Serralves Museum (PT), Digital Culture Centre (MX), Museum of the Moving Image (USA), CA2M: Contemporary Art Madrid, Whitstable Biennale (UK), Metro Arts (AU), Institute of Modern Art (AU), Sound of Stockholm, Abandon Normal Devices (UK), San Francisco Cinematheque, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Contemporary Art Centre (LT), Audiograft (UK), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Contemporary Art Tasmania, South London Gallery, and Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art (NO).

Golding also co-founded OtherFilm (AU) and Unconscious Archives (UK), curating hundreds of boundary-pushing programs across moving image, sound, and digital art. She is the author of Parsing Digital: Conversations in Digital Art by Practitioners and Curators (Austrian Cultural Forum London).

sally@otherfilm.org

EXHIBITIONS
Museum of the Moving Image – Cinema of Sensations, New York, In Parallax, 2023
Metro Arts & Brisbane Festival, Assembly Now, 2020
Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art, Norway, Your Double My Double Our Ghost, 2019
South London Gallery, UK, Your Double My Double Our Ghost, 2016
Contemporary Art Tasmania, Australia, Exhaust, 2016
Institute of Modern Art, Australia, Out of Body Out of Mind, 2010
Independent Exhibitions, Australia, An Other Face: Spell for Living & Dying, 2009

AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES
2024
Essential Tremors, curated by Angus Andrew [Liars], Phoenix Central Park, Sydney
Essential Tremors, curated by Angus Andrew [Liars], Ainslie Art Centre, Canberra
2023
PRISME Festival, Nantes w/ Spatial
Hangar / Crater-Lab, Barcelona w/ Spatial
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto w/ Spatial
2022
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Liquid Architecture x Light: ‘Light Works from Tate’s Collection’
2019
Oram Awards (PRS for Music & BBC New Radiophonic Workshop), Kings Place, London
Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
2018
Analogue Ensemble, Ramsgate, UK
Cinema, Expanded, Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Ohio, USA
Denison University, Ohio, USA
Tyneside Cinema Projections series, Newcastle, UK - Decompression w/ Spatial
Cafe OTO, London, part of Container 2-day residency
2017
S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Fundación Luis Seoane, Spain
Splice Festival, Richmix, London, duo w/ Spatial
Cafe OTO, London
East End Film Festival, London, duo w/ Spatial
Labor Berlin, Film in the Present Tense, Berlin
Back to the Future, Filmwerkplaats, WORM, Rotterdam
2016
San Francisco Cinematheque, USA
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘The Museum as Performance’, Porto, Portugal, solo & w/ Spatial
Fort Process, Sussex, UK, solo & w/ Spatial
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CAM2), Madrid w/ Spatial
Cable Festival, Nantes, France
Cafe OTO, London, duo w/ Seymour Wright
Contact Festival, London, duo w/ Spatial
Whitstable Biennale, UK
2015
Art Cinema OFFoff, 42nd Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, Belgium
Magnet Festival, Sweden
Melbourne International Film Festival Breaching Transmissions w/ Spatial
The Independent Film Show, Naples
Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuania, e:THE:REAL ZONE:: Cinema In Cibernetik Space
Cube Microplex, Bristol
Cafe OTO, London
Audiograft, Oxford
International Film Festival Rotterdam
2014
Sound of Stockholm, Sweden
Digital Culture Centre, Mexico City
Supernormal Festival, UK
Analogue Recurring, London
Black Box Live, Edinburgh International Film Festival
FlexFest, Florida, USA
Assembly: Five Years of British Film & Video Art, Tate Britain, London
2013
Fylkingen Festival, Stockholm
Supernormal, UK
Aberystwyth Theatre, Wales
Analogue Recurring, Lo & Behold, London
Outer/Inner (Space), Central Saint Martins, London
New Low Gallery, Melbourne
OtherFilm Festival, Brisbane
AVANT Goes Live, Sweden
2012
Oslo Cinemateket, Norway
BEAM: Brunel Electronic & Analogue Music Festival, UK
PLAY, Madrid
KRAAK, Belgium
Hackney Film Festival, London
Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris
Experimenta, India
2011
Colour Out of Space, Brighton, UK
Cherry Kino, Leeds International Film Festival, UK
SONICA, Slovenia
Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London
Mal Au Pixel, Paris
2010
Psycho Subtropics, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
The Glass Delusion, Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, UK
Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester
Cafe OTO, London
No.w.here, London
2009
Open Frame, Brisbane Powerhouse
Audiopollen Festival, Old Museum, Brisbane
Music Stimulants, Brisbane Powerhouse
Psycho-Sub-Tropics, Tape Projects, Melbourne
2008
The Stone, New York
Director’s Lounge, Scala, Berlin
Cafe OTO, London

AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES WITH JOEL STERN AS ABJECT LEADER
2012
Gasworks, London
2010
Apparent Motion Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque
2009
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
‘Retinal Reflux’, New Zealand Film Archives
2008
Exist in 08, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Oddball, San Francisco
Melbourne International Film Festival
Now Now Festival of Spontaneous Music, Sydney
2007
Liquid Architecture, Sydney & Melbourne
FPS, Auckland Film Festival, New Zealand
2006
Mono, Institute of Modern Art
Unsound, Wagga Wagga, Australia
MadCat International Film Festival, San Francisco
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
Flux-us, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
2005
Articulating Space, Melbourne
Transacoustic, Auckland
What is Music?, Brisbane Powerhouse
Electrofringe, Newcastle, Australia
2004
Smallblackbox, Institute of Modern Art, Australia
Syncretism, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane

AWARDS / GRANTS / COMMISSIONS / RESIDENCIES
Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Projects, 2021
ArtsACT, Arts Activities, 2021
MESS: Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio, 2019
Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice, 2018
Oram Award, The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop & PRS Foundation, 2017
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts (UA2017), 2017
Sound and Music Embedded residency with South London Gallery, 2015-2016
Australia Council for the Arts, Experimental & Emerging Arts, 2015
ACME Studios – Australian & NZ Festival of Literature & Arts, London, 2014
BBC RADIO 3, Jazz on Film, 2013
Lord Mayor’s Fellowship, Brisbane City Council, 2010
Asialink Award, University of Melbourne, 2010
Aphids, Professional & Creative Development Grant, Australia, 2009
Queensland At Home, Queensland Music Festival, 2009
Arts Queensland, Professional Development Grant, 2008

DISCOGRAPHY
LEVE 7 (vinyl compilation). LEVE, Spain, 2018
The Folklore of Plants Vol.1 (vinyl compilation). Folklore Tapes, UK, 2017
Spatial-Golding: Capacities (CD: creative text & sound). Broken20, Glasgow, 2017
Pictures In Your Mind (silver foil lathe cut, edition of 4), LaborBerlin, Berlin 2016
HFF Vol.1 (vinyl compilation). Psyché Tropes, London, 2014
Synchresis (DVD compilation). Australian Network for Art & Technology, Australia, 2007

PUBLICATIONS
Golding, Sally (author creative text). Cerca de Aqui. Centro de Arte Josè Guerrero, Granada, Spain, 2019
Golding, Sally. Parsing Digital: Conversations in digital art by practitioners (editor). Becoming Digital; Digital Becoming (author). London, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 2018
Golding, Sally (author creative text). Film in the Present Tense. Berlin, Archive Books, 2018
Golding, Sally (author article). The Importance of Supporting Experimental Artists. UK, Festival Insights, 2017
Golding, Sally (author). Expanded Cinema Unowned: Noise and liveness in the contemporary. USA, San Francisco Cinematheque, 2016

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Walley, Jonathan. Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, Oxford University Press 2020
Knowles, Kim. Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
De Bruyn, Dirk. Performing the Margins of the New. Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives and Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Redman, Sean. Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age, I.B. Tauris (Imprint) / Bloomsbury Publishing (Publisher), 2017
Bath, Tristan. Sally Golding: Cut & Splice (feature). The Wire, Issue 388. London, Exact Editions, June 2016
Ball, Steven. Beyond the Cringe: Australia, Britain, and the Post-Colonial Film Avant-Garde. Senses of Cinema, Contemporary British Experimental Film & Video (series), Issue 78, Australia, March 2016
Rogers, Cathy. Issues in Contemporary Expanded Cinema: A Discussion With Sally Golding And James Holcombe. London, Contact Festival, 2016
Redmond, Sean & Stanton, Polly. Breaching Transmissions – Can expanded cinema expand your mind? (review), The Conversation, Australia, August 2015
Wilson, Jake. Breaching Transmissions screens in MIFF's psychedelic cinema retrospective (preview article). The Age, Melbourne, 2015
Muis, Robert. Sally Golding – Film Projection As Unpredictable Process. Gonzo Circus no.125, Netherlands, January-February 2015
A.L. Rees. Physical Optics: A Return to the Repressed, Millennium Film Journal, no.58 35th Anniversary Edition, NYC, 2013
Walley, Jonathan. Not An Image of the Death of Cinema. Expanded Cinema, Tate Modern, London, 2012
Zuvela, Danni. A little light teasing: Some special affects in avant-garde cinema. Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2012
Bracey, Andrew & Griffiths, Dave. UnSpooling: Artists & Cinema. Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2010
Zuvela, Danni. Danni Zuvela Talks To Sally Golding. Independent Press, Issue 1, Brisbane, 2010
Zuvela, Danni. Stirrings in the Undergrowth: Some notes on live audiovisual performance in Brisbane. Eyeline Issue 68, Australia, 2009

MENTORING & ADVISORY BOARDS
Next Wave - Kickstart, AU, 2023-2025
Prix Ars Electronica - Digital Communities, AT, 2018
Flatpack Film Festival - Waveform artist development programme, UK, 2018
Sound and Music - British Music Collection, UK, 2016-2018
ACME Studios - International Residencies Programme, UK, 2017
Arts Bridge Tasmania, AU/UK, 2014
Youth Arts Queensland, AU, 2009

CURATORIAL PLATFORMS
Unconscious Archives, 2011-2019, audiovisual & sound art series, London: UA2017 Festival & Exhibition
OtherFilm, 2006-2012, festival & live audiovisual/screening events, Australia
Psycho Subtropics, 2009-2012, performance art & noise showcase, Australia
The Bleeping Light, 2014 – The Wire magazine, Off the Page festival, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri nations, and their Elders past and present, who are part of the world's oldest continuing cultures, on whose lands I am privileged to engage in art-making and knowledge sharing.