I Pretend Too Much

Special Audio Issue

Track List

0.00 The Great Pretender (written by Buck Ram) by Sam Cooke, 1960. From the album Hits of the 50's, RCA Victor. (Vocal Isolated edit)

03.28 Soft Selves by Edy Fung. Text by Andrea Bjurström

13.20 Send in the Clowns by Sophie Robinson

20.58 The Double by Freya Dooley

38.46 Word Builder by Rachel Heavey

49.15 A Frog Prepares by Isadora Epstein. Music and sound production by Davy Kehoe

 

Featured Artists

Freya Dooley

Freya Dooley is an artist based in Cardiff, UK. Her practice spans sound, writing, moving-image and performance. Often rooted in close-range observations, layered narratives and soundscapes navigate the harmonies and tensions between personal and collective experiences, with a particular interest in structures of work and domestic living. Freya was the Creative Wales-BSR Fellow at The British School at Rome in 2021 and was awarded a PRS Women Make Music Award in 2023. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include False Note, Site Gallery, Sheffield (2024), Diamonds and Rust, a live performance commissioned by Goldsmiths CCA, London (2022) and Temporary Commons for Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Arts, London (2021).

Rachel Heavey

Rachel Heavey is an artist and PHD researcher from Dublin, Ireland.

Edy Fung

Edy Fund is an artist, curator and musician who runs a noise and found sound project Quantum Foam/QNTMFM. Her practice has most recently been exploring random fluctuation, indeterminacy and entropy in the aspects of both sound and information science via both classical and electronic instruments.

Sophie Robinson

Sophie Robinson is a poet, novelist and nonfiction writer living and working in Norwich. She is the author of Rabbit (Boiler House Press, 2018), and the founder of Devotion, a radical online creative writing workshop. Her writing has appeared in n+1, The White Review, BOMB Magazine, Stylist, The Guardian, The Believer and many other places. She writes regular essays on her substack Feelings Almanac, and is currently finishing her first novel.

Isadora Epstein

Isadora Epstein makes performances from her research of art history and mythology. Living and working in Dublin, Epstein has had recent performances at IMMA, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, and Cork Midsummer Festival. She has an upcoming performance at the Hugh Lane Gallery.

Davy Kehoe

Davy Kehoe is a composer, and music producer based in Dublin, Ireland. He is best known for his releases on the Wah Wah Wino record label; Short Passing Game (2017) and The Pilot (2019). His music explores experimental and motorik soundworlds and embraces hypnotic and playful forms of improvisation. Davy is also an experienced sound recordist, working primarily through field recordings and site-specific collaborations.

Cover image: Untitled (2021) by Eoghan McIntyre, digital drawing