Vehicle Arts at LCB Depot
31 Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1RE
Vehicle Arts has been working hard in the background, and been very quiet on our socials! We’ve have partnered up with LCB Depot and taken on the gallery Lightbox, and co producing their exhibition programme. Find it here
It’s been hard but we have successfully secured a National Lottery Project Grant to commission four artists/ groups over September to December exhibition season. Find more out here . First Launch is at LCB Depots street food night LastFriday August 30th
Lightbox gallery LCB Depot 
Shortwave Collective 
Shortwave Collective
First up
In 2024 LCB Depot celebrates its 20th anniversary and to mark the occasion, it has commissioned four new projects in collaboration with us and is part funded by Arts Council England. The commissions is being led by artists and makers to showcase a range of creative themes starting with sound as a focal point in September
The LCB Depot creative programme will showcase a variety of audio works in collaboration with Phoenix cinema using sound art, music and audio production in new and innovative ways. The exhibition season is an exciting opportunity for visitors to explore music, sound art, radio, podcasts, and other audio made in Leicester/shire and beyond by established sound artists and audio producers as well as emerging talent from DMU’s Music Technology course.
The first of four artist commissions to kick off this season of sound throughout September will be international creative practitioners, Shortwave Collective, who will be performing ‘Edges of Transmission’. This exciting group of artists have an interest in creative uses of radio. The collective uses a wide range of disciplines from sound, radio art, activism and social science all brought together by an interest in feminist approaches to amateur radio, sharing resources, considering DIY approaches and inclusive structures.
“We are planning a sequence of micro-broadcasts, transmitting selections from our archive of DIY radio recordings from around the world and recordings collected locally via homemade radios made during a community workshop in Leicester. Visitors can borrow a handheld radio and explore the locale, testing the boundaries of transmission and how the materiality of the built environment affects this.” Georgia for Shortwave Collective. Find out more about Shortwave Collective here www.shortwavecollective.net
As part of ‘Sound 2024’ we will be hosting a number of participating artists, providing a platform to showcase new work and works in progress and to support individuals’ professional development.
Visitors can expect to see (and hear) a long-list of over 20 sound artists and producers performing at LCB, Phoenix and other venues including Eloïse Bertil, who will be presenting ‘Home sweet home, I guess’ an immersive soundwalk from Eloïse’s front lawn to her entrance door, offering reflections on life in flatshares. Patricia Azevedo (Brazil) and Clare Charnley (UK) have been collaborating since 2007 and will present ‘Stone
Hitting Stone’, a video based on a small village deep in the hills of Portugal where many of the inhabitants have a profound and lived understanding of music that’s reflected in speech patterns. A sort of guessing game with the locals evolved, with neighbours teasing each other and playfully reinterpreting sounds recorded locally. This and many other sound pieces can be watched and listened to on screens, via headphones or as part of events, workshops or installations.
More details here