Megan Hadfield and Constanza Castagnet: Nightcall

Nightcall was published as part of an exhibition at 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam comprising sculpture, sound, video, and performance.

4bid Gallery is part of OT301, a legalised squat. Megan Hadfield’s ‘Mixed Signals’ takes this specific site as the starting point for a surreal reflection on the housing crisis. The text was born from a late night conversation with a resident who claimed that animal infested properties were sometimes easier to squat, due to the planning legalities regarding certain protected species. Tapping into non-human methods of communication, the protagonists use bat-monitoring techniques to disrupt their precarious living situations.

The exhibition takes the logic of bat echolocation as its point of departure for experimental writing. In Constanza Castagnet’s ‘A Similar Condition’ a nameless protagonist finds herself tormented by an increasingly disturbing sensitivity to sound. Traversing a 1990s Buenos Aires, the psyche of the vampiric protagonist gradually becomes consumed by noise.